H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Honor, without money, is a mere malady.”
“HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit.
LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her.
HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.”
“Honor?” “Yes.” “I’m going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn’t let a man do to her.”
Source: Archangel's Blade
“Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.”
“Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.”
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.”
Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.”
Source: Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self
“Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.”
“Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.”
“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.".”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.”
“Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.”
“Honoria had a plan.
It had come to her in church that morning. (The ladies went; the gentlemen somehow managed to get out of it.) It wasn’t terribly complicated; she needed only a sunny day, a halfway acceptable sense of direction, and a shovel.”
Source: Just Like Heaven
“Honoria worked her jaw. “You cannot control the actions of others and, as such, you will not be able to protect yourself from hurt.”
Source: To Enchant a Wicked Duke
“Honoring agreements is integral to maintaining a healthy economy.”
“Honoring all ways we survived our childhood abuse is healing. We were amazing and courageous.”
Source: Spirit Unbroken: Abby's Story
“Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.”
“Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.”
“Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.”
“Honoring the unique experience of the individual is important. As we do that, we can start to listen beyond the terms we agreed to agree on, which really were not showing the experience for what it truly is—a unique, unrepeatable, individual experience within the moment.”
Source: Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1
“Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy, traits that few people value and fewer still cultivate and acquire. Not until there is more of Smith and less of Hobbes in the human heart, will the majority of people prefer peaceful and boring market relations to the violent and exciting relations between coercer and coerced, predator and victim”
Source: Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
“Honoring what you deserve is the beginning of living.”
“Honoring your soul doesn't make you full of yourself; it makes you filled with your Self.”
Source: You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom
“Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.”
“Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.”
“Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.”
“Honors, just like difficulties, were to be faced with courage and strength.”
Source: Sworn
“Honors to me now are not what they once were.”
“Honour always wins, it is inevitable.”
“Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
[Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]”
“Honour at once brings up the thought of vengeance. It must be so; he who thinks of honour must say vengeance, not only because the two are always found together in the stories, but more because it is only through vengeance that we can see the depth and breadth of honour. Vengeance contains the illumination and the explanation of life; life as it is seen in the avenger is life at its truest and most beautiful, life in its innermost nature.”
Source: The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
“Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.”
Source: Conversations With Myself
“Honour both love and loss”
“Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.”
Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Honour is
Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps
All perfect justice in her arms; that craves
No more respect than that she gives; that does
Nothing but what she'll suffer.”
“Honour is a crown that radiates with dignity. Therefore, you must not play dirty if you want victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)
“Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“Honour’ is just a word. You can’t eat it or drink it and yet everywhere I go men talk of it endlessly, and they all tell a different tale of what it actually means.”
Source: Blood Song
“Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?”
“Honour is not jus a word .... ‘Keeping your Word’ is Honour.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Honour is not just a word .... ‘Keeping your Word’ is Honour.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)
“Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.”
“Honour lies in humility.”
“Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.”
“Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Source: A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature