Quotes about Be Honorable

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. Votes: 4

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable. Votes: 4

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. Votes: 4

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. Votes: 3

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, Votes: 3

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Votes: 3

People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you. Votes: 3

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good. Votes: 3

Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice...to be honorable and to behave decently. Votes: 3

As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable. Votes: 3

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art. Votes: 2

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. Votes: 2

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. Votes: 2

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. Votes: 2

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. Votes: 2

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. Votes: 2

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. Votes: 2

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen. Votes: 2

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family. Votes: 2

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. Votes: 2

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. Votes: 2

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move. Votes: 2

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Honor your daughters. They are honorable. Votes: 1

O honorable strumpet Votes: 0

Cartooning is an honorable thing Votes: 0

Compromise is an honorable word. Votes: 0

Cartooning is an honorable thing. Votes: 0

And Brutus is an honorable man, Votes: 0

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band. Votes: 0

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man. Votes: 0

Humility makes great men twice honorable Votes: 0

What is permissible is not always honorable. Votes: 0

I believe I am an honorable man. Votes: 0

You might want to comment on that, Honorable. Votes: 0

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide. Votes: 0

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret. Votes: 0

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Votes: 0

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. Votes: 0

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. Votes: 0

Even enemies are not indifferent to honorable deeds. Votes: 0

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them. Votes: 0

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. Votes: 0

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. Votes: 0

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged. Votes: 0

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. Votes: 0

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable. Votes: 0

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. Votes: 0

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country. Votes: 0

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. Votes: 0

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality Votes: 0

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. Votes: 0

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. Votes: 0

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. Votes: 0

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta Votes: 0

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side Votes: 0

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side. Votes: 0

I think it's an honorable thing that Donald Trump is doing. Votes: 0

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes. Votes: 0

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones. Votes: 0

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. Votes: 0

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. Votes: 0

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat! Votes: 0

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. Votes: 0

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding. Votes: 0

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive. Votes: 0

The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life. Votes: 0

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality. Votes: 0

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. Votes: 0

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. Votes: 0

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. Votes: 0

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. Votes: 0

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome. Votes: 0

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it. Votes: 0

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home. Votes: 0

What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable. Votes: 0

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. Votes: 0

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. Votes: 0

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. Votes: 0

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. Votes: 0

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it. Votes: 0

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. Votes: 0

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Votes: 0

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not. Votes: 0

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. Votes: 0

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. Votes: 0

A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life. Votes: 0

Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation. Votes: 0

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. Votes: 0

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Votes: 0

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. Votes: 0

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. Votes: 0

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery Votes: 0

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. Votes: 0

An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society. Votes: 0

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. Votes: 0

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. Votes: 0

The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. Votes: 0

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win. Votes: 0

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night. Votes: 0

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. Votes: 0

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. Votes: 0

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. Votes: 0

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. Votes: 0

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. Votes: 0

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought Votes: 0

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is. Votes: 0

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. Votes: 0

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour. Votes: 0

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! Votes: 0

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable. Votes: 0

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. Votes: 0

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. Votes: 0

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] Votes: 0

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace. Votes: 0

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. Votes: 0

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare. Votes: 0

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish. Votes: 0

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It's an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar) Votes: 0

There is nothing "honorable" or "reasonable" in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate. Votes: 0

We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use. Votes: 0

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have. Votes: 0

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable. Votes: 0

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work. Votes: 0

Final Satyagraha is inconceivable without an honorable peace between the several communities composing the Indian nation. Votes: 0

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone. Votes: 0

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. Votes: 0

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word. Votes: 0

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable. Votes: 0

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind. Votes: 0

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse. Votes: 0

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. Votes: 0

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both. Votes: 0

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it. Votes: 0

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. Votes: 0

Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing. Votes: 0

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. Votes: 0

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. Votes: 0

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. Votes: 0

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Votes: 0

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. Votes: 0

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. Votes: 0

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? Votes: 0

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. Votes: 0

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement. Votes: 0

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. Votes: 0

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy. Votes: 0

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. Votes: 0

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. Votes: 0

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. Votes: 0

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration Votes: 0

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. Votes: 0

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! Votes: 0

Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single. Votes: 0

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. Votes: 0

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material. Votes: 0

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words. Votes: 0

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines. Votes: 0

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School. Votes: 0

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. Votes: 0

God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing. Votes: 0

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Votes: 0

When we are honorable in the small things each day, we eventually become honorable in all things in life. Votes: 0

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? Votes: 0

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe Votes: 0

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Votes: 0

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. Votes: 0

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction. Votes: 0

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. Votes: 0

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. Votes: 0

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. Votes: 0

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. Votes: 0

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success. Votes: 0

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do. Votes: 0

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me. Votes: 0

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. Votes: 0

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. Votes: 0

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can. Votes: 0

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time. Votes: 0

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. Votes: 0

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. Votes: 0

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers. Votes: 0

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service. Votes: 0

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. Votes: 0

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. Votes: 0

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. Votes: 0

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all. Votes: 0

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. Votes: 0

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. Votes: 0

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. Votes: 0

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. Votes: 0

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning. Votes: 0

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. Votes: 0

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. Votes: 0

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige? Votes: 0

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death. Votes: 0

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. Votes: 0

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship. Votes: 0

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one Votes: 0

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. Votes: 0

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. Votes: 0

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Votes: 0

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. Votes: 0

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. Votes: 0

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. Votes: 0

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.] Votes: 0

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past. Votes: 0

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. Votes: 0

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing. Votes: 0

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. Votes: 0

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment. Votes: 0

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Votes: 0

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. Votes: 0

There are some honorable politicians; and God bless them, there aren't many of them - but they're narcissistic. They need people to love them. Votes: 0

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! Votes: 0

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it. Votes: 0

The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable characte Votes: 0

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap. Votes: 0

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. Votes: 0

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed. Votes: 0

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing. Votes: 0

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. Votes: 0

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do Votes: 0

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society. Votes: 0

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought. Votes: 0

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war. Votes: 0

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better. Votes: 0

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. Votes: 0

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. Votes: 0

What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls! Votes: 0

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. Votes: 0

Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others. Votes: 0

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. Votes: 0

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable. Votes: 0

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Votes: 0

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way. Votes: 0

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Votes: 0

To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven. Votes: 0

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice. Votes: 0

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! Votes: 0

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States. Votes: 0

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor. Votes: 0

For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well. Votes: 0

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. Votes: 0

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power. Votes: 0

I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one. Votes: 0

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act! Votes: 0

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers. Votes: 0

I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations. Votes: 0

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life. Votes: 0

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. Votes: 0

Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness. Votes: 0

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious. Votes: 0

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God. Votes: 0

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases. Votes: 0

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.". Votes: 0

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run. Votes: 0

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have! Votes: 0

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare. Votes: 0

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Votes: 0

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. Votes: 0

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. Votes: 0

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him. Votes: 0

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. Votes: 0

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life, Votes: 0

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that. Votes: 0

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings. Votes: 0

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance. Votes: 0

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable. Votes: 0

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same. Votes: 0

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking. Votes: 0

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity. Votes: 0

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations. Votes: 0

I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources. Votes: 0

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace Votes: 0

So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal Persona is unbombable? Trust me son, I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to allow you that the chronicle has just begun. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status. Votes: 0

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is. Votes: 0

I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture. Votes: 0

Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world. Votes: 0

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. Votes: 0

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home. Votes: 0

To obtain greatness and strength, a man must have a good character. He is honorable and respected by others. We define him as intelligent, and as one who God has blessed with wisdom Votes: 0

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor. Votes: 0

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable. Votes: 0

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it. Votes: 0

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him. Votes: 0

You're kind and patient and honorable, and yes, maybe those aren't flashy, magical, extraordinary traits. Maybe being all those things does make you a bit ordinary, but the ordinary things are the important things. Votes: 0

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against. Votes: 0

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan. Votes: 0

I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is. Votes: 0

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost. Votes: 0

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things. Votes: 0

Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now. Votes: 0

Just because they didn't shoot you all in the head doesn't mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave? Votes: 0

Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God. Votes: 0

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures. Votes: 0

Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God." Votes: 0

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them Votes: 0

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart. Votes: 0

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. Votes: 0

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully. Votes: 0