Honorable Quotes - Page 19

• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  Sophocles

  Father, Son, Ornaments

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• Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Memories, School

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• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Wine

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• I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.

  Derek Blasberg

  People, Moral, Common

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• You might want to comment on that, Honorable.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Want

  "Campaign Memo". www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2000.

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• To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

  Walter Cronkite

  Yield, People, Democracy

  "Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2009.

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• Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Athlete

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• A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

  Jesse Ventura

  Liars, Lying, Hero

  "Jesse Ventura refuses to see 'American Sniper,' says Chris Kyle is no hero". www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2015.

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• I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

  Corra May Harris

  Believe, Long, Joy

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• Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

  Moss Hart

  India, Theater, Humbling

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• The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Years, Gentleman, Democracy

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Style

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

  Heath L'Estrange

  Character, Enough

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• She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Work, Wife

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.352, Harvard University Press

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• Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

  John Wolcot

  Childhood, Age, Immortality

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• How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?

  Polybius

  Kings, Ambition, Fighting

  Polybius, William Roger Paton (1960). “Polybius: the histories”

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• If you're married to an entrenched non-apologizer, it won't help to doggedly demand one. Some folks lack the self-esteem required to take responsibility for their less than honorable behaviors, feel remorse, and offer a heartfelt apology. And many people are so hard on themselves for the mistakes they make, they don't have the emotional room to admit vulnerability and apologize to a partner.

  Harriet Lerner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Spiritual, Abortion, Moral

  "January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

  Brooke Hogan

  Dad, Heart, Telling The Truth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Father, Men, Needs

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• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

  Sallust

  States, Despised, Ifs

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• In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strong, Party, Yield

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• A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Victory, Defeat

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