Your Honor Quotes

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

  Wendell Willkie

  People, Honor, Wish

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• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

  Joe Paterno

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.

  James Cash Penney

  Trust No One, Honor, Satisfaction

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• When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Honor, Ready

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.309, e-artnow

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• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

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• Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Lying, Character

  Alexander Pope (1823). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems”, p.33

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  Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Honor, Theatre

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.104

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• Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Honor, Needs, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2013

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• There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Feet, Soul, Feelings

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

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• Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Honor, Promise

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

  Caroline Myss

  Honor, Matter, Break

  "Caroline Myss' Journey" by Terry Loncaric, Conscious Choice, September 2003.

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• A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

  James Keller

  Sleep, Judging, Honor

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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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• I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

  Andrew Fastow

  Punishment, Honor, Wish

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• When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor.

  Marjolein Bastin

  Thinking, Tree, Humanity

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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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• 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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• Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

  Cory Booker

  Motivational, Courage, Heart

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Feb 04, 2016

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• Mrs. Teasdale congratulates him on his coronation and sovereignty: "The eyes of the world are upon you. Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you." Firefly replies: "Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more."

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Eye, Firefly

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, America, Honor

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", Live Coverage of Republican Presidential Contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

  Brendan Sullivan

  Honor, Microsoft, Fruit

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