Honorable Quotes - page 2

How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings? (Polybius)
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. View quote
Pindar
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue. View quote
Xi Jinping
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ – radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ – what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer. View quote
Jefferson Davis
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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. View quote
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. View quote
Nathan Hale
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. View quote
Louis Farrakhan
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. View quote
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. View quote
Molière
Always try to rub against money, for if you rub against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you. (A Very Honorable Guy) View quote
Damon Runyon
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. View quote
Voltaire
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers. View quote
Mario Puzo
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. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It's an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable. View quote
Jeaniene Frost
You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?'” He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, " ‘just' seems a poor modifier to choose. View quote
Diane Duane
Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome. View quote
Wil Wheaton
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. View quote
Angelina Grimke