Honorable Quotes - Page 17

• Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Men, Odds

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Doubt, Doe, Care

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• To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

  Albert Pike

  Lying, Hands, Brain

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

  Dennis Prager

  Home, Choices, Feminist

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  Pat Riley

  Life, Travel, Ambition

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• But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Skills, Giving, Balance

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• It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Liberty, Literature, Restraint

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• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

  Tupac Shakur

  Crime, Committed

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Malcolm X felt that if he could make a public - a prominent public statement to show his fidelity to the Honorable Elijah Mohammad that that might win him back in the good graces of the organization.

  Manning Marable

  Winning, Organization, Grace

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.

  Robert Schwentke

  Real, Years, Two

  "Director Robert Schwentke Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Thanks to men
  Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Thankfulness

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John”, p.498

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• Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

  Muriel Spark

  Weapons, Ridicule, Left

  Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

  William E. Gladstone

  Teeth, Use, Members

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• I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Responsibility, Games, Teammate

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• The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

  Albert Einstein

  Legends, Primitive, Collections

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• My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

  William Shakespeare

  Gentleman, Masters, Tricks

  William Shakespeare (1866). “Works, Complete: From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens”, p.241

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• I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;
  but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Women, Grief

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.194, A&C Black

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• In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

  Confucius

  Sincere, Ten

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• I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

  Joanna Russ

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Honesty, Lying, Character

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• You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

  George Q. Cannon

  Honesty, Men, Honorable Man

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• If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Fall, World, Proud

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• The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Good Man, Occupation

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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