Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Michel de Montaigne

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Michel de Montaigne

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

Naguib Mahfouz

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

R. C. Sproul

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

Publilius Syrus

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Oprah Winfrey

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Kevin McKidd

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

Margaret Chase Smith

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

Mary Bono

For the past 6 years, it is my privilege and honor to serve as the Representative for California's 45th Congressional district.

Idris Elba

Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

Harry S Truman

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

Mark Wright

All of us feel for this woman and her family. We have a contract, and we're gong to honor that contract.

Seth Godin

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

Socrates

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Oh, sheez, what’s Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How’d the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd)

Miguel de Cervantes

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Miguel de Cervantes

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...

Sherwood Smith

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

Nicolas Chamfort

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

John Woo

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

John Wooden

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

Phil McGraw

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

Melody Beattie

There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

Florentino Perez

I think our honorary president is going to stay with us for a long time to come.

But you did not do what you did to be remembered. You did not do what you did for honor, ... You did what you did because it had to be done.