Honorable Quotes · Page 16

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

— Anonymous

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

— Patrick Califia

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason…

— Sofia Coppola

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human…

— Angelina Grimke

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Quintilian

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

— Tony Vlachos

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the…

— David Foreman

“I’m trying to do what’s right, whether or not that measures up with what men call honorable. There’s a gap between those,…

— Brent Weeks

With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that…

— Harry Belafonte

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic…

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been…

— Russ Feingold

America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America,…

— Louis Farrakhan

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things…

— Seneca the Younger

I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we…

— Cedric Richmond

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing…

— Paul Gruchow

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do…

— Charlotte Beers

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A…

— Aleister Crowley

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in…

— Walter Cronkite

I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in…

— Noam Chomsky

The Koreans that make their money in our community: If we have a Black bank, you'll find they don't deposit anything of…

— Louis Farrakhan

Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Gabe Paul

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

— Mike Nichols

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

— Samuel Johnson

“He shoved her aside and forced his sword, to the hilt, straight through James’s torso.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

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

— Don Nickles

Kindness is honorable in that, it sits not just in our memories but right in our hearts.

— Terry Mark

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the…

— Albert Einstein

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I…

— Eddie Izzard

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

— David Klass

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

— Jeannette Rankin

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

— Rosanne Cash

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Nelson Mandela