Honor Quotes

• Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Important
  • Family

• When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Country
  • Team
  • Honor

• I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

  

  Aristotle
  • Respect
  • Aim
  • Craving

• It is an honor to represent the people of India every time I step into the ring.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • People
  • Time
  • Honor

• America will honor our treaty obligations.

  

  John R. Allen
  • America
  • Honor

• I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Waiting
  • Sticks
  • Peas

• There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Honor

• They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C. A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Kids
  • Team
  • Friend

• The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

  

  James Shirley
  • Honor

• Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honor
  • Atheist
  • Attitudes

• It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

  

  M. M. Mangasarian
  • God
  • Book
  • Truth

• Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Age
  • Culture
  • Environment

• 'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn't just a single-dimension thing.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Single

• One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Criticism
  • Ruin
  • Review

• From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

  

  August Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society, working there, in 1995, but I started working with them as a student in 1991. I was appointed as a teaching assistant at my university because I accomplished with honor.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Society
  • Honor

• On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

  

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Parent

• I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Book
  • War
  • Marine

• From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

  

  George Carey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• It's been an honor working with you, Mr. President.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Honor
  • President
  • Working

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