Honor Quotes - Page 26

• And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wisdom, Strong, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.148

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• To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

  Saadi

  Truth, Lying, Cutting

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• To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

  Plautus

  Men, Honest, Duty

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• Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The offering must be presented to some deity. Since God is pure and holy, and will accept nothing defiling in its character, He refuses this expensive, filthy, and unholy sacrifice; therefore we conclude that Satan is the one who claims the honor.

  Ellen G. White

  Character, Sacrifice, Men

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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• There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

  Moliere

  Effort, Rewards, Pleasure

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• The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Royalty, Paid

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Action, Destination, Pursue

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• The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Liberty, Foundation, May

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.81, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

  William Safire

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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• There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Interesting, Imperfection

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• No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Science, Discovery

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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Uplifting, War, People

  "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Groups, Conflict, Indifference

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• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Shadow, Rewards

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• Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Law, Smoking

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1903). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great”

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• You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Thinking, Adoption, Grace

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• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Way

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• It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

  Simon Sinek

  Kindness, Luxury, Firsts

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

  Francine Pascal

  Loyalty, Daughter, Mother

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• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Caring, Science, Self

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• Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

  Groucho Marx

  Women, Firefly, Fighting

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• Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Heart, Thinking, Blessing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.155, Delphi Classics

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• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Pain, Wish To Die

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• The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.

  Paul Tillich

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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• It is not enough that we express our gratitude, we must experience it. We truly honor the must think about our blessings, separately and cumulatively It is not enough to count our blessings and express our gratitude if we don't truly feel grateful.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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