Honor Quotes - Page 23

• One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Team

  "Lionel Messi exclusive: 'I will NEVER play in the Premier League'". www.mirror.co.uk. April 29, 2010.

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• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Names, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.76

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• Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

  Swami Muktananda

  Self, Meditation, Worship

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• What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.

  Janet Morris

  Believe, Commitment, Land

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.41, Paradise Publishing

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• That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

  Wyatt Earp

  Loyalty, Tombstone, Sacred

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• We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Military, Men, Justice

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• Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.39, Whitaker House

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• War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

  Charles Sumner

  Crush, War, Men

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• The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

  David Lloyd George

  Fate, Sacrifice, Hands

  Speech in Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Patriotic, Peacemaker

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969".

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• It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Intelligent, Clouds

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3514, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity for all of us around the globe to celebrate the diversity of our societies and to honor the contributions that our fellow citizens of African descent make every day to the economic, social and political fabrics of our communities.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Years, Organization

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• There's no honor in soccer

  Alexi Lalas

  Soccer

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• Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.135

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• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Children, Dwelling

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.151

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• Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice...They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

  Charles E. Stanton

  Military, War, Heart

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• A person cannot be a Marine without honor.

  Carl Epting Mundy, Jr.

  Military, Marine, Persons

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• I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

  Grace Hopper

  Military, Grateful, Awards

  Chips (Department of the Navy information technology magazine), October 1986.

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• To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

  Philip Sidney

  Inspirational, Real, Ambition

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• Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

  Ovid

  Life, Success, Money

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• Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Beauty

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Money, Men, Cash

  "Time Enough for Love".

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• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Freedom, Men, Hands

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