Honorable Quotes

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard.And always be awesome.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness.

It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family. public emploiment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from ones family and affairs.

The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and duty calling us devoutely to express our grateful acknowledgements to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us. The General directs that the army remain in its present quarters, and that the Chaplains perform divine service with their several Corps and brigades. And earnestly exhorts, all officers and soldiers, whose absence is not indispensibly necessary, to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along.

I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind;

or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession.

If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence.

Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.

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.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

It is an honorable calling that you have chosen.

Some of you will soon be defending poor, helpless insurance companies who are constantly being sued by greedy, vicious widows and orphans trying to collect on their policies. Others will work tirelessly to protect frightened, beleaguered oil companies from being attacked by depraved consumer groups.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is;

that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?