Honorable Quotes - Page 9

• This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, Lying

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 23 January 2007

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• Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

  Pope Gregory I

  Wish, May, Faults

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• You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Agency, Needs, Time On Earth

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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, Honorable Man

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• An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Loss, Past

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• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Reality, People, Expectations

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 19, 1647.

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• Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly, to gain the development and enlarged understanding which always follow earnest service in a responsible position. It is an honorable privilege and a personal benefit to be allowed to serve in an official position in the Church; and an office, whatever it may be, should be accepted in a spirit of grateful appreciation.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Appreciation, Jesus, Grateful

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• [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Aversion, Sovereign

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.886, Modern Library

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• The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Rights, Years

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• ...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Purpose, Waste, Students

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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, Honorable Man, Degrees

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

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• I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Country, Brother, Son

  Inauguration speech of His Excellency Benigno Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at Quirino Grandstand in Manila (translated from Filipino), newsinfo.inquirer.net. June 30, 2010.

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• An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Real, Team, Self

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• If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

  George W. Melville

  Men, Ideas, Dollars

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• I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Character, Mean

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

  Tony Vlachos

  School, Years, Birth

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Attitude, Justice For All

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• The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Past, Names, Armor

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• I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

  Jackie Gleason

  Purpose, Drink

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• There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.

  Jill Soloway

  Sports, Reality, Thinking

  "The Woman Who Created 'Transparent' Wants You to 'Borrow White Male Privilege'". Interview with Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. November 22, 2015.

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• No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Grief, Taken

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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

  Gabe Paul

  Men, Honorable Man, Needs

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• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  Salma Hayek

  Long, People, Trying

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• The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

  Nick Cave

  Art, School, Night

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