Honorable Quotes

Honorable Quote of the day

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.