Honor Quotes

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
Dennis Banks

Family, Respect, Away

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.
A. J. Jacobs

Respect, Future, Friend

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
Carol Moseley Braun

Fight, Somebody, Beat

All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
Conrad Black

Life, Freedom, Long

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
Dan Lipinski

Peace, Women, Men

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.
Susana Martinez

School, Justice, Law

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
Randall Terry

God, Before, America

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
Carrie-Anne Moss

Respect, Try, Moment

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Titus Livius

Sometimes, Desire, Fall

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.
Theodor Herzl

Work, Freedom, Tomorrow

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.
Sandra Lee

Beautiful, Remember, Knows

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.
Pete Rose

Fame, Bigger, Hall

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.
Joe Baca

Voting, Nation, High

'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
Christiane Amanpour

Great, Forward, Team

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.
Sebastian Vettel

Great, Happy, Together

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Grover Cleveland

List, Republic, Roll

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.
Bill Toomey

True, Understand, Realize

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
Bill Toomey

Country, Team, Privilege

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.
Kristen Bell

Try, Often, Fan

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw

Live, Sense, Writer

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw

Live, Human, Sense

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
Hank Azaria

True, End, Sometimes

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.
Frank B. Kellogg

History, Country, Wonderful

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
Tony Curtis

Career, Through, Special

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Best, Gratitude, Important

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
Lana Del Rey

Life, Love, Live

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
George Wald

Peace, Simple, Light

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.
Jared Leto

Work, Someone, Real

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
Boris Pasternak

Meaning, Community, Meet

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.
Rick Santorum

History, Greatest, Country

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