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Quotes About Honorable

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
~ Publilius Syrus
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
~ William Wordsworth
I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.
~ Sofia Coppola
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
~ Peter Cooper
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
~ John Paul Jones
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.
~ Malcolm X
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
~ Ronald Reagan
Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.
~ Delano Johnson
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
~ Winfield Scott
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
~ Mary McCarthy
A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life.
~ Stefan Emunds
All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
~ William Bradford
I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta
~ David Brooks
How many things we acquire only because others bought them and because they are in a good many homes. Many of our problems are explained by the fact that we copy the example of others: rather than following reason, we are led astray by convention. If only a few people did something, we wouldn't imitate them. But when the majority starts to act a certain way, we follow along, too, as if something should be more honorable just because it's more frequent.11
~ David Fideler
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
~ Thomas More
Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour
~ Chuck Leavell
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?
~ Jeremy Collier
In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.
~ Steven Magee
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
~ Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
That's enough, Leonis! I'm an honorable man—Kelio and Sina can play tomorrow, but they're out by the championship game. I'll let the two of you decide how to break it to them.
~ Jason Fry
No one respected them for their labor in a country where the idea of honorable poverty had vanished.
~ Edmund White
The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
~ Lori Foster
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
~ Richard Ben-Veniste