Honorable Quotes

Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

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

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

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.

A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

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

What is permissible is not always honorable.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.