Honor Quotes - Page 34

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

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests and even high prelates did things that will forever be an honor to Catholicism.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.