Honorable Quotes

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

I think it's an honorable thing that Donald Trump is doing.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them.

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls!

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.