Honor Quotes - Page 34

• Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, College, Play

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• Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Motivational, Basketball, Player

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• Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

  Mathew Staver

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Soul, Suffering

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of LIsieux, Volume II: General Correspondence 1890-1897”, p.238, ICS Publications

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• In all humility and sincerity we must admit a power higher than ourselves from whom is derived a positive moral code that will give our lives significance and purpose. We also must remember once and for all that honesty, respect, and honor as such are not for sale on the market block. They are ingredients that you and I and all people should put into our daily lives.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Honesty, Block, Integrity

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• Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

  Rudolf Hess

  Fear, Spring, Hero

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• I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Healing, Loss, Brotherhood

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.78, Knopf

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• If I might be the means of saving one soul I should prefer it to all the riches and honor in the world

  Asahel Nettleton

  Mean, Soul, World

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• The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.

  Gail Caldwell

  Lovely, Triumph, Cunninghams

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• When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

  Paul Begala

  Integrity, Mean, White

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• In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Stars, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

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• Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Country, Growing Up

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• Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

  Bert Murray

  Integrity, Character, Voice

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• A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Integrity, Character

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  "In God's Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery". Book by Karen Casey, 1991.

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• Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Aids, Force

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Men, Despair

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Country, Memorial Day

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• I think it’d be a great honor to be able to influence someone’s joy.

  CL

  Thinking, Joy, Able

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• It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Success, Wise, Generosity

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• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

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• Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

  John Brown

  Liars, Character, Ruffian

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• No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

  James Henley Thornwell

  Integrity, People, Liberty

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• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  Kara Lindsay

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a fundamental integrity that affects both their thoughts and their actions.

  Joe B Wyatt

  Integrity, Character, Men

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