Honor Quotes - Page 36

• Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Honesty, Integrity, Punishment

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• As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Political, Would Be, Republic

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• When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Talking, Political

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• Don't live your life to please other people.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Divorce, People, Live Your Life

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic of the holy relationship. It's the ability to celebrate and honor in all others, the place where we're all one. ...establish a holy relationship with your Source, the world community, your neighbors, acquaintances, family, the animal kingdom, our planet, and yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Animal, Expression, Community

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• I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Team, People

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• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Business, Style, Survival

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• Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into Mount Rushmore, minted into coins, and emblazoned in a place of honor in every school child's history text as a constant reminder of this great man's contributions to world freedom, national pride, and individual prosperity. With the truth, the term 'Reaganomics' will be used only as a term of endearment and respect.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, School, Pride

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• On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team.
  To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Lying, Pride, Men

  Personal message to troops of 21st Army Group on the eve of D-Day,

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• Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

  Aron Ralston

  Thank You, Beautiful, Love You

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

  Karen Duffy

  Thank You, Years, Messages

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Believe, Self

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• You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Expression, Deception

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Strength, Inspiration

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• Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

  Neil Peart

  Past, Dedicated

  Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.457, ECW Press

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• Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

  Nelson Mandela

  Choices, Arms, Violence

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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• When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
  Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
  Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
  Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
  The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Men, Noble Man

  Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff (2007). “Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes”, p.23, Hackett Publishing

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• I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and...Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

  Sarah Palin

  Waiting, Sticks, Peas

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• A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

  Adrienne Rich

  Artist, People, President

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor.

  Stephen Spender

  Thinking, Air, Vivid

  Stephen Spender, “The Truly Great”

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• I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination... Gadhafi died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Fighting, Loss

  "Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan condemns killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi" by Ryan Haggerty, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Japan, Hands, Europe

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• When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Friendship, Warrior, Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly and honor and a gift: it opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Believe, Inspire

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