Honor Quotes
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It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.
Alan Mulally -
I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.
Mark Leibovich
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And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C. S. Lewis -
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
Meg Greenfield -
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
Peter Agre -
Honor is better than honors.
Abraham Lincoln -
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
Edward Cocker -
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
Victor Hugo
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Honor is the same as credit; it's one's ability to keep ones promises, but also, in the case of a wrong, to 'get even'.
David Graeber -
It's been an honor working with you, Mr. President.
Kiefer Sutherland -
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Sara Willis -
The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.
Aristotle -
With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and hardship and failure, and all these things that it means to be human, that you show the fullness of their life. If the person's living, they are able to interject.
Brian Lindstrom
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Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
Ambrose Bierce -
You have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media.
Melania Trump -
We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.
R. Bowen Loftin -
I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'
Kevin Dillon -
We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
Vance Havner -
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. Lewis
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“People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!
Nisio Isin -
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
William Cowper -
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
David Hare -
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide