Honorable Quotes

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

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

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.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

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

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

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.

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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.

Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]