Honorable Quotes

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.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

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.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

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.

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

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.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.