Honor Quotes - Page 24

• Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Pride, These Days

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.166, Paradise Publishing

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• Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Light, Imagination

  Sir Walter Scott (1880*). “Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century ; The Pirate”

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• When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

  Bill Toomey

  Country, Team, Army

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• Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Love You, Love Is

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Gossip, Curious

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  William Shakespeare

  East, West, Danger

  William Shakespeare (1856). “King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth”, p.29

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• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

  Studs Terkel

  Hero, Past, Years

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• Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

  Raymond Chandler

  Hero, Mean, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.69, Vintage

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• Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

  Jean Anouilh

  Lying, Hero, Race

  Jean Anouilh (1951). “Legend of lovers”

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• What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Business, Wish, Succeed

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• How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Men, Dresses, Culture

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.80, Vintage

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• Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Youth, Reputation

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2334, Delphi Classics

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• He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Office, Calling

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.2

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• Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Mark Twain (2015). “Christian Science”, p.343, Mark Twain

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• But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Religious, Art, Different

  Clement of Alexandria (2012). “Exhortation to the Heathen”, p.361, OrthodoxEbooks

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• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Weakness, Vices, Virtue

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• To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Loyalty, Sexuality

  Janet Morris (1987). “Beyond Wizardwall”, Ace Books

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• Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.

  James E. Faust

  Selfish, Lying, Father

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• Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Fathers Day, Gratitude, Jobs

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• The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Comfort, Nations

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Names, Duty

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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