“My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.” PeopleFeelsMayHas BeensImportantCountryGivenFrontsCitizensHonorTasksFellowsDearChosenRepublicPresidency Author:Francois Hollande
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.” IfsMenPersonsCan DoAbilityBusinessSuccessfulHonestyHonorProfessionChosenHonorableDeservingSuccessful Person Author:Will Rogers
“Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.” IfsMenFirstsWellsKindBeautifulFashionBearsHonorWorshipChosenBelovedConformIncarnationRobesChoir Author:Mary Renault
“The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.” WorldBelieveMeanMadeBookCoursesHonorSightSlaverySouthUglyTongueLovelyChosenSentimentsSenatorsMistressVowKnightsCarolinaChivalryChasteSouth CarolinaHarlots Book:The Complete Works of Charles Sumner Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner
“When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.” My OwnPathHonorLonelyChosenFree WillCommitteesNobelLonely Path Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.” RunningHonorMembersChosenBagsCoatsTobaccoSelectedFamily MembersBuffaloBeavers Author:Dennis Banks
“For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.” MenFightingRightsSonHonorChosenMy SonAnthem Book:Anthem Source: Anthem
“And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.” IdeasWantedRoomsHonorGloryChosenFree WillEnviedGlory And Honor Book:Code Name Verity Source: Code Name Verity