Honorable Quotes - Page 3

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

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

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

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

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

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

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

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

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

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

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

I believe I am an honorable man.

Compromise is an honorable word.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

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