Honorable Quotes

• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Characters
  • Temptation
  • Immoral

• 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
  • Causes
  • Careless
  • Saviour

• It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

  

  George Washington
  • Night
  • Military
  • Succeed

• Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Man
  • Right

• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Past
  • Facts
  • Racism

• The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

  

  David Foreman
  • World
  • Humans
  • Limits

• Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Conduct
  • Laudable

• I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

  

  John Hancock
  • Praying
  • Sacred
  • Dear

• Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Business
  • War

• My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Government

• Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Teach
  • Honorable
  • Discretion

• living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Purpose
  • Dying
  • Activism

• Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

  

  Sophocles
  • Speak
  • Honorable
  • Pardonable

• All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

  

  Alma Kruger
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Honorable

• It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Term
  • Engineering
  • Ancient

• Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

  

  Moliere
  • Write
  • Honorable
  • Verse

• Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

  

  Zhuge Liang
  • People
  • Cold
  • Distance

• Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Alive
  • Difficulties
  • Honorable

• If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

  

  Thomas More
  • Honorable
  • Profitable

• Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.

  

  Wil Wheaton
  • Always
  • Honest
  • Honorable

• I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Suffering
  • Animal
  • Abuse

• Cale is my signature character in the Forgotten Realms. The most popular character I've written. He's a thief, an assassin, and eventually, a priest who stabs his own god in the chest. Always trying to slip his past, but never succeeding. Dark dude. Brooding dude. Born killer. But honorable, still.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • Character
  • Past
  • Dark

• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  

  David St. John
  • Language
  • Ambition
  • Profound

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