Honorable Quotes

377 quotes by 313 authors

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life… — Emilie Autumn
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. — Mortimer Adler
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to… — Wendell Berry
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… — Steven Brust
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable… — Nick Cave
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is permissible is not always honorable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have… — Eric Clapton
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. — Henry Clay
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand… — Mario Andretti
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. — Maya Angelou
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… — Albert Einstein
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. — Horace
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… — Benjamin Disraeli
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is… — Charles Sumner
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Albert Schweitzer
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,… — George Washington
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. — Mark Twain

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