Top 59 Honorable Life Quotes
#1. A vibrant body, a radiant mind, a loving heart, and an honorable life.
Stefan Emunds
#2. One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Heath L'Estrange
#3. The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.
Lou Holtz
#4. God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#5. That the most honorable thing in life is not to live it selfishly, but to take risks for those we love.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life,
Ansel Elgort
#7. I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.
James C. Scott
#8. The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.
Donald E. Williams Jr.
#9. God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be - *that* was magical.
Ransom Riggs
#11. She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
Emily Dickinson
#13. For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
Plato
#14. If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
Oprah Winfrey
#15. All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.
Alma Kruger
#16. 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
#17. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Anita Roddick
#18. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.
Don Marquis
#20. To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave - that was magical.
Ransom Riggs
#21. If you have led an honorable and honest life, there is no need to be afraid of speaking the truth. The
Haemin Sunim
#22. 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
#23. I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
Kenneth Langone
#24. I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.
Stephanie Adams
#25. Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
Ambrose Bierce
#26. I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Gertrude Stein
#27. Anything good, honorable, and desirable in life is based on love. Anything bad or evil is simply life without the love involved.
Jim Stovall
#28. After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren't we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.
Ayse Kulin
#29. An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
[Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]
Tacitus
#30. To be profitable, practice diligence.
To be successful, practice excellence.
To be influential, practice intelligence.
To be honorable, practice prudence.
To be blissful, practice kindness.
To be joyful, practice goodness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou
#34. I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.
Paula McLain
#35. The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.
Brad Thor
#36. It is by far the best plan, therefore, to mingle leisure with business, whenever chance impediments or the state of public affairs forbid one's leading an active life: for one is never so cut off from all pursuits as to find no room left for honorable action.
Seneca.
#37. I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.
David Petersen
#38. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. 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
#40. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#41. Jesus, life has its share of honorable thrills if one but keeps one's eyes open!
J.D. Salinger
#42. I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
Derek Blasberg
#43. Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
Seneca The Younger
#44. Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
Matthew Simpson
#45. Do not chase happiness. Instead, define success for yourself; then go out and live it. Be unapologetic in your commitment and honorable in your behavior. When you live in this manner, happiness chases you.
Steve Maraboli
#46. Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley
#47. I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.
Paula McLain
#48. 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
#49. Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
Publilius Syrus
#50. Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
Mario Puzo
#51. I try to be honorable. I know that's embarrassing to hear. It's embarrassing to say. But I believe most of the nonsense that Thoreau was preaching. And I have spent a long time working on getting myself to where I could do it. Where I could live life largely on my own terms.
Robert B. Parker
#52. Honor from death," I snap, "is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.
Rae Carson
#53. The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.
B.R. Ambedkar
#54. You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.
George R R Martin
#55. Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable
Stephen Mansfield
#56. I have faith in us as a family, and our friends. I think we will survive because we don't wish to harm anyone. If you ever need something to believe in, believe that to stand and fight for the people you love is the most honorable thing you can do with your life.
Jessica Fortunato
#57. I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.
Robert Schwentke
#58. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#59. 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
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