Honor Quotes

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Cesare Lombroso

Men, Speak, Rather

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.
Reese Hoffa

Life, Live, Powerful

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Eugene McCarthy

Society, Last, Worship

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
George B. McClellan

War, Sad, Proud

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
Mercedes Lackey

Good, War, Down

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
Willard Libby

Made, Possible, Individual

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
Willard Libby

Time, Hope, Live

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
Billy Preston

Great, Treat, Group

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
Henry Laurens

Business, Country, Cannot

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.
Gio Gonzalez

Culture, Represent, Latin

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.
James Shirley

In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
Meg Greenfield

Fall, Somebody, Washington

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.
Francois Fillon

Position, France, Defending

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
Ira Hayes

Men, Hero, Brave

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.
Richard Kiel

Family, God, Blessed

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
David Borenstein

Men, Lose, Lives

I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country.
Robert A. Brady

Women, Men, Important

Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.
Rob Bishop

Important, America, Nation

Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.
Charlie Haas

Him, Against, Share

There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
William Bolcom

Nice, Book, Play

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.
Richard Lovelace

Love, Loved, Dear

All is lost save honor.
Francis I

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
Francis I

Life, Nothing, Left

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Claud-Adrian Helvetius

Love, Men, Happy

The law often allows what honor forbids.
Bernard Joseph Saurin

Law, Often, Allows

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
Edward Cocker

Best, Learning, Sun

It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy.
Maureen Murphy

Privilege, Michael, Murphy

My honor is my loyalty.
Heinrich Himmler

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
Andrew Fastow

Understand, Bitterness, Wish

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