Honorable Quotes
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
Seneca the Younger -
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers -
Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.
Manning Marable -
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Salma Hayek -
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust -
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Ted Rall -
Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
Aristotle
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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Wendell Willkie -
With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.
George Washington -
Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
Malala Yousafzai -
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.
Socrates -
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
Jasper Fforde
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Malcolm X felt that if he could make a public - a prominent public statement to show his fidelity to the Honorable Elijah Mohammad that that might win him back in the good graces of the organization.
Manning Marable -
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
Oprah Winfrey -
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
Bill Vaughan -
Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.
Gabe Paul -
John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise
Sadie Robertson
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It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
William E. Gladstone -
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
Seneca the Younger -
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
George Washington -
Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.
William Morley Punshon