Best honor & honorable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.”

Ifs Lying Hero Honor Liars Honorable You Re A Liar

“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.”

Ifs Men Persons Can Do Ability Business Successful Honesty Honor Profession Chosen Honorable Deserving Successful Person

Author:Will Rogers

“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?”

Should Fighting Greater Security Danger Kings Honor Ambition Sake Cease Honorable Greece Barbarians Macedonia

Book:Polybius: the histories

Source: Polybius: the histories

“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.”

Ifs Matter Courses Virtue Imagine Honor Honorable

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.”

Way Children Found Lost Money Generations Grew Honor Slave Corruption Credit Noble Honorable Mercenary Lost Money

Author:Francis Quarles

“What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?”

Reason Enough Honor Conscience Dignity Command Stations Honorable Have Courage

Book:Essays upon several moral subjects

Source: Essays upon several moral subjects

“Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don't think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man's faith.”

Thinking Men Wells I Can Shows Hands Honor Shakes Contracts Arrangements Honorable Attacking Handshake Honorable Man

Author:Rand Paul

“I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.”

Ifs Men Humans Children Littles Teach Share Duty Bears Honor Privilege Employment Occupation Invites Honorable Drudgery

Author:Angelina Grimke

“It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?”

Mind Firsts Has Beens Different Reason Facts Century Honor Depression Suicide Deeds Accepted Insane Fighter Inevitable Honorable Inevitable Death

Author:Emilie Autumn

“For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing a woman who makes her own sexual choices (like marrying without her father's consent) is considered honorable, rather than criminal.”

Men Choices Father Honor Males Killing Criminals Islamic Honorable Consent Marrying

Author:Riane Eisler

“I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980's primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves.”

“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”

Ifs Would Be Honor Honorable Profitable

Author:Thomas More

“Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.”

Death Dies Honor Thousand Ten Wounds Honour Honorable Honored

Author:Joseph Addison

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

Character Truth Lying Belief Honor Faster Honorable Spoons

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.”

Giving Night Sleep Enemy Honor Give Me Ambitious Honorable

Book:A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

Source: A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

“But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.”

People World Helping Lying Inspiring Honor Goodness Noble Diamond Honorable Santa Santa Claus Helping Each Other Goodness In The World

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy”

Ifs Action Enemy Principles Higher Honor Survival Advantage Mercy Revenge Code Aspire Honorable Predictable Honorable Death

Author:Frank Beddor

“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.”

Giving May Said Faces Asks Honor Queens Instruction Honorable Obeying

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.”

Persons Character Strong Moral Honor Judgment Worthy Merit Admiration Honorable Worthiness Moral Judgment Character Of A Person

Author:Michael Josephson

“War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.”

Men War Age Justice Honor Crush Anti War Heels Bloody Honorable No War Godlike Dishonorable

Author:Charles Sumner

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