Honor Quotes

• For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Children
  • Families

• When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Distance

• I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Marriage
  • Care
  • Damn

• I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Great
  • Long
  • Hero

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.

  

  Confucius
  • Honor
  • Living
  • Dead

• Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Poetry

• Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound?

  

  John Flavel
  • Honor
  • Safety

• Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Glory
  • Abstract
  • Concrete

• Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

  

  Periander
  • Honor
  • Pleasures
  • Transient

• I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • World
  • History
  • Integrity

• 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 them derive Than our foregoers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Challenges
  • Born
  • Thrive

• The 2013 Boston Marathon was, for me, a milestone. A bucket list event that was supposed to be my last marathon until my next big milestone, turning 50. But I couldn't leave marathoning on a memory like that, so I am running this year to honor everyone in the running community and those unsung heroes from April 15, 2013.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Community
  • Running
  • Memory

• To me, I think when women who have children are fighting overseas, that's long distance. And that's very challenging. I really honor those families that do that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Long
  • Women
  • Children

• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• When I was inspecting the guard of honor and as I walked past one person, I saw through the corner of my eye some movement. Then I saw a man reverse his rifle at me. I ducked down a little bit in a reflex action. By my ducking, he missed my head and the brunt of the blow came on my shoulder below the left ear.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Past
  • Action
  • Blow

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven
  • Honor
  • Hero

• For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.

  

  John Cho
  • Feeling
  • Honor

• The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Color

• True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • True
  • Suffering

• I know there are a lot of tough stories out there about Sinatra, but he was so sweet to Bobby and me. He even had us replace him one night in the main room. He didn't get Sammy or Dean; he said, 'I want the kids to do it.' Man, what an honor.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Sweet

• I swear to God, I will see the Palestinian state, whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • God
  • Honor

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

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