Best honor & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.”

“If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.”

Ifs Men Trying Lying Names Wish Greater Honest Honor Innocent Being Honest Deceiving Deities Stop Trying Swearing Dealings

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?”

Men Persons Found Wish Effort Blood He Man Honor Gratitude Bravery Property Debt Defense Generous Exertion Indebted

Book:The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography

Source: The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography

“I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.”

Hands Wish Honor Bravery Loyalty Trails Trueness

Author:Charles Goodnight

“Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.”

Men Enough Wish Design Honor Battle Succeed

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.”

World Want Wish Sports Player Honor Basketball India Coaches Usa Prominent

Author:Satnam Singh Bhamara

“When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.”

People World Ends Remember Wish Honor All Things Riches Amusement

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you really feel. Don't try to change it. Honor it: "This is how I feel." Express it, and then it's not suppressed and stored somewhere in your liver or somewhere else.”

Thinking Feels Should Writing Trying Wish Felt Honor Somewhere Else Wish You Liver

Author:Deborah King

“The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.”

Kind Done Christian Mother Father Wish Christianity Enemy Judging Bears Honor Neighbor Commit Witness Goods Adultery False Witness

Author:Aristides of Athens

“I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.”

Believe Wells Said Country Done Government I Believe Wish Effort Honest Honor Conscious Relation East Make Sense Atmosphere Germany Rejoice Joints Berlin Treaties Warsaw Joint Efforts

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.”

Trying Looks Wish Views Honor Likes Fats Admire Paris Sufficient Comment Pants Reserves Belly Famine Badges Over The Top

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.”

Men May Has Beens Reason Wish Born Chance Brother Honor Deserve Claims My Brother Grants Foe Anthem Love My Brother

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”

Wish Honesty Duty Honor Blind

Book:Faith of the Fallen

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“I wish people had half the honor of dragons.”

People Wish Half Honor Dragons

Book:Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.”

Said Wish Community Race Fire Honor Cease Invention Setting Esteem Settings Gentleman Suggesting Shadowhunters Clockwork Princess New Inventions Henry Branwell

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.”

Wish Interest Business Honor Succeed Abandon Commerce

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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