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• Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Looks

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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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• Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Hero, Unique, People

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• Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Smoking, Form

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• Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Interesting, Alive, Difficulty

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• When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Men, Honorable Man

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• I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Feet, Survivor, Alive

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.53, Penguin

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• I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

  George Washington

  People, Brave, Choices

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.153

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• The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

  Charlotte Beers

  Mistake, Assessment, Giving

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• The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.

  Catherine Ponder

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  War, Yield, May

  Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

  Sallust

  War, Men, Honorable Man

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Yield, Climbing

  "Keys to Success".

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• High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Past

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Respect, Missing, Gone

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• Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Teamwork, Men, People

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXV: Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment of Religion and its External Polity, Ch. 2: Of the Motives of Attachment to Different Religions, 1748.

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• I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

  Goldie Hawn

  Happiness, Believe, People

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• Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

  Zhuge Liang

  Distance, Flower, People

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• We have noted the appeal of Honorable Ambrosini about the decriminalizing of marijuana for medical use.

  Jacob Zuma

  Marijuana, Use, Medical

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• The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspirational, Life, Community

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• Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Life, Wise, Business

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• Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

  Francis Beaumont

  Wisdom, Lying, Honor

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• Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Kings, Father

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1691, Bantam

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