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Honor Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a…
- Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
- Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so…
- Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their…
- When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of…
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
- Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
- I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,…
More Honor Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve… — Mary Kay Ash
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember… — Jim Bakker
- To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. — Douglas Adams