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• There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

  Nelson Mandela

  Purpose, Fixed, Aim

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• The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Office, Political

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.199, University of Virginia Press

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Witty, Men, Political

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Honesty, Opportunity

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• A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

  Horace

  Umpires, Justice, Judging

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• At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Choices, Caged Birds

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.31.

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Failure, Memorable, Successful

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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• Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

  Christopher Hart

  Discipline, Bravery, Way

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• No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

  Zeno of Citium

  Death, Evil, Honorable Death

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• living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Dying, Purpose, Activism

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• Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

  James E. Faust

  Integrity, Men, Self

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

  Plutarch

  Encouragement, Children, Mean

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• A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Political, Healthy, Society

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• Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Courage, Mean

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

  William J. Clinton

  Democracy, Doe, Interest

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• To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Heaven

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• I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Example, Profitable, Good Examples

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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• It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Persons

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• What is permissible is not always honorable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Honor, Matter, Imagine

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• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Despair, Incentives, Honorable Death

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

  Richard Pryor

  Animal, Abuse, Suffering

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• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Women, Parenting

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