Top 619 Honorable Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation.
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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.
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
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.
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.
I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.
I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
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.
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
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 often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.
I have traveled to GTMO and have seen the honorable and professional behavior of the American men and women in uniform who serve at the detention facility.
I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.
I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.
...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.
