Honorable Quotes
377 quotes by 313 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
— Henry Clay
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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
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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
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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
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
— Horace
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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
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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
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Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
— Albert Schweitzer
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Honorable Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 377 Honorable Quotes, led by these top contributors: