Honorable Men Quotes

#1. The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way.

Neal Stephenson

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

Richard Helms

#3. Gentlemen respect the rights of others. They are honorable men.

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don't think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man's faith.

Rand Paul

#5. But even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.

Isabel Allende

#6. Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

Stephen Mansfield

#7. When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Mario Puzo

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

Henry Clay

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Mario Puzo

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

George Bernard Shaw

#16. The words of honorable men are more valuable than gold

Chris Griffith

#17. The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

J.C. Ryle

#18. And Brutus is an honorable man,

Julius Caesar

#19. Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Luc De Clapiers

#20. If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. 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

#23. Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

Aristotle.

#24. Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.

John Linder

#25. Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Mortimer Adler

#26. The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.

William Howard Taft

#27. 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

#28. Only an honorable victory is a true victory.

Bohdi Sanders

#29. Thanks to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

William Shakespeare

#30. As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

William Shakespeare

#31. 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

#32. I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.

Joanna Russ

#33. Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Louis Farrakhan

#34. We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

Graham Greene

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

Jules Renard

#36. Among you Medes, I'm told, there are many men so honorable that everyone trusts them. We're not like that at all - we never trust one another. So what we do instead is make sure that each side's represented, so that every rascal's got two worse looking over his shoulder.

Gene Wolfe

#37. Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Seneca The Younger

#38. Some men are honorable because of the example set for them, others, choose to be honorable in spite of it

Margaret Mallory

#39. As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office ... Such a man cannot desire promotion unless he received it from the respectable part of the community, for he considers no other promotion to be honorable.

Noah Webster

#40. The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

Alfred North Whitehead

#41. Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

#42. War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Charles Sumner

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

Moliere

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Aristotle.

#47. For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

Dale Spender

#48. 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

#49. That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Dorothea Dix

#50. Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Gabe Paul

#52. Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

Aristotle.

#53. Kraut was a stand-up guy in the old tradition, in a strange way reminiscent of my father in his steadfast refusal to abandon a position once he had taken it. It was a quality I lacked, and so admired in others when they weren't using it to beat me to the canvas or break my heart.

Miles Watson

#54. Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#55. Speaking one's mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#56. Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

John Chivington

#57. An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Bergen Evans

#58. Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Edmund Burke

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

Suzy Kassem

#60. 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

#61. The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?

Margaret Halsey

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

Voltaire

#63. 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

#64. Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

John White Geary

#65. A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.

Jim Nantz

#66. God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

Tad Williams

#67. I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

Don Nickles

#68. An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

Robert Jordan

#69. Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Publilius Syrus

#70. Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#71. For a government,' said the god, 'is nothing but a mirror of your minds--tyrannical for tyrants--hypocritical for hypocrites --corrupt for those who are indifferent--extravagant and wasteful for the selfish--strong and honorable only toward honest men.

Talbot Mundy

#72. All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

William Wordsworth

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

Confucius

#74. Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Charles De Secondat