Famous Quotes & Sayings

He paid the ultimate sacrifice for his country. I'm here out of respect for him, to honor him.

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.

George Herbert

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

Jerry Bridges

Worship is the specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One honor won is a surety for more.

Francis Quarles

Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

I feel honored to represent my team for the Shaw award,

I feel honored to be able to come out and win. It was nice.

How odd it's three honor students that are in trouble for being rebellious.

Simon Wiesenthal

Come, let us do honor to the man who has always honored us.

Iyanla Vanzant

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

Immanuel Kant

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

But you savor this, no question. It's an honor to be on the other sideline.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return

Sathya Baba

Honor every religion; each is a pathway to the one God.

Honor and integrity are traits that show who you really are when no one else is around.

Marcel Proust

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Joseph Addison

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Epictetus

Act your part with honor.

Emily Giffin

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

Hjalmar Schacht

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Herodotus

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Johanna Lindsey

Defeat held no honor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Khaled Hosseini

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Norman Spinrad

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.