Top 619 Honorable Quotes & Sayings

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

What is permissible is not always honorable.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called Negroes. This come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

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

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

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

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

To be a follower of The Honorable Elijah Mohammed, you have to completely extain from alcohol, or fornication, adultered, killin', stealin', lyin'. I would say that the people are not rejectin' the Honorable Elijah Mohammed because they don't believe what he teach.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said when the children of Israel rebelled against Moses and Aaron and did not want to leave their slavemaster to build an independent nation of their own under the guidance of God, God chastised them with fiery serpents and cockatrices. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked me one day, "do you know what it means fiery serpents"? I said, "no sir." He said, "It means angry White people."

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

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

I believe I am an honorable man.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

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

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.

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

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

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.".

I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Compromise is an honorable word.

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