Desire Quote by Livy Download Open image “Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.” — Livy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Fall Favors Honor Sometimes
We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
It's always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
That is honor's scorn Which challenges itself as honor's born And is not like the sire. Honors thrive When rather from our acts we… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“[What is honor]—I suspect that if, after reading this book, you were to go and ask the question of your friends and acquaintances, you… — Jack Whyte Copy Share Image
“Servius Sulpicius and M. Tullius were consuls the next year: nothing worth mentioning happened.” — Livy Copy Share Image
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the… — Livy Copy Share Image
“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you… — Livy Copy Share Image
“There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of… — Livy Copy Share Image
“[Rhodian delegation:] Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time.” — Livy Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image