Honorable Quotes

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

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

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America's honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophes.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

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.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

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.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.