Honorable Man Quotes

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  A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

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• Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

  George Washington

  Country, War, Men

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Cheating, Lying, Character

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

  Suzy Kassem

  Humility, Men, Three

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Integrity is the value we set on ourselves. It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.

  James E. Faust

  Integrity, Men, Self

  James E. Faust (1990). “Reach Up for the Light”, Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

  Henry Clay

  Business, Character, Men

  Henry Clay (1981). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Secretary of State 1827”, p.769, University Press of Kentucky

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

  Lloyd Banks

  Loyalty, Important, Serious

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• America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Rights

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.69, Princeton University Press

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• It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

  Jules Renard

  Hero, Men, Fifteen

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, May, Purses

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.344

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• Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Regret, Men, Settling

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Suzy Kassem

  Humility, Men, Good Man

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• An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

  Bergen Evans

  Men, Bullied, Hypothesis

  The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beautiful, Strong, Mean

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

  Confucius

  Men, Doe, Forget

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

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Honest, Forget

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• No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Independent, Men

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• 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.

  Sallust

  War, Men, Desire

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• There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Very True, True Man

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5800, e-artnow

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• Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

  Moliere

  Writing, Men, May

  "Le Misanthrope" by Moliere, act IV, sc. i, 1666.

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• Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Whole Life, Treachery

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• The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

  Richard Helms

  Men, Degrees, Devoted

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 14 April 1971.

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• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  Walker Percy

  Crazy, Men, Order

  Walker Percy (1989). “Lancelot”

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• Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

  Gabe Paul

  Men, Needs, Honorable

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