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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. -- Thomas More
If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable. -- James E. Faust
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. -- Matthew Simpson
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. -- Edward Gibbon
A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying, -- Jesse Ventura
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
In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. -- Mike Wallace
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of the immediate cost of sacrifice...to be honorable and to behave decently. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good. -- Jack Abramoff
As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable. -- Noah Webster
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art. -- George Oppen
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. -- Philippe Petit
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. -- Nathan Hale
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. -- Jane Harrison
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. -- Sallust
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. -- Angelina Grimke
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. -- Petrarch
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? -- Harriet Martineau
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. -- Steven Brust
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen. -- Benigno Aquino III
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family. -- Paul Harris
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. -- Thomas Sowell
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. -- Rooney Mara
Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. -- Russell Banks
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move. -- Abraham Pais
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. -- E. O. Wilson
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. -- Orison Swett Marden
Honor your daughters. They are honorable. -- Malala Yousafzai
O honorable strumpet -- William Shakespeare
Cartooning is an honorable thing -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Compromise is an honorable word. -- John Dingell
Cartooning is an honorable thing. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
And Brutus is an honorable man, -- Julius Caesar
Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band. -- Janet Morris
Marty Stanovich was an honorable man. -- Evel Knievel
Humility makes great men twice honorable -- Benjamin Franklin
What is permissible is not always honorable. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe I am an honorable man. -- Joseph J. Ellis
You might want to comment on that, Honorable. -- George W. Bush
Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret. -- Stephen Mansfield
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. -- Seneca the Younger
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. -- Thomas Fuller
Even enemies are not indifferent to honorable deeds. -- Arrian
Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them. -- Claudia Christian
Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. -- Confucius
Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. -- Muriel Spark
I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged. -- Jackie Gleason
An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. -- Bergen Evans
Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable. -- Delano Johnson
Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. -- William Shakespeare
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country. -- Horace
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. -- Jimmy Breslin
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality -- Pindar
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. -- Quintilian
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. -- Wendell Willkie
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. -- Pindar
I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta -- David Brooks
In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side -- Gina Gershon
In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side. -- Gina Gershon
I think it's an honorable thing that Donald Trump is doing. -- Jeff Sessions
We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes. -- Katherine Paterson
All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones. -- Alma Kruger
Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession. -- Moss Hart
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. -- Moliere
A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. -- Thomas Paine
To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding. -- Henry David Thoreau
Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life. -- Lou Holtz
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality. -- Publilius Syrus
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man. -- Suzy Kassem
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. -- Horace
Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome. -- Wil Wheaton
living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home. -- Lady Gaga
What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable. -- Peter Cimino
I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me. -- Rachel Maddow
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. -- David Gemmell
Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. -- Noam Chomsky
It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it. -- Thomas Jefferson
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. -- Voltaire
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. -- Zeno of Citium
Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not. -- Tamora Pierce
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. -- John Ruskin
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life. -- Stefan Emunds
Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation. -- DeWayne Owens
A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. -- Confucius
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. -- Zeno of Citium
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery -- Mario Puzo
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. -- Albert Schweitzer
An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. -- Stephen King
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence. -- Ambrose Bierce
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. -- Eric Holder
That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win. -- Nancy Mairs
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night. -- George R. R. Martin
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. -- Ted Rall
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. -- Edward Abbey
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. -- Thomas Mann
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. -- Andy Hargreaves
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is. -- Eva Ibbotson
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Francis Beaumont
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour. -- Livy
General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out! -- James Longstreet
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable. -- Jeaniene Frost
Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. -- Shannon L. Alder
An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.] -- Tacitus
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace. -- Malcolm X
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. -- Tupac Shakur

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