Honorable Quotes
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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More Honorable Quotes
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses."
james madison— Letter to William Bradford (September 1773), quoted in The Lustre of Our Country : The American Experience of Religious Freedom (2000) by John Thomas Noonan, p. 66
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Elbridge Gerry (13 May 1797).
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
petrarch— De vita solitaria (1346) as quoted in Madalyn Aslan's Jupiter Signs: How to Improve Your Luck, Career, Health, Finances, Appearance, and Relationships Through the New Astrology (2003) by Madalyn Aslan
Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.
george washington— Letter to Benedict Arnold (14 September 1775).
Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.
george washington— To the Marquis de Lafayette (15 November 1781).
The ancient and honorable.
— Isaiah, IX. 15. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or sorrow that’s when ethics are involved.
— Henry W. Bloch, in The Importance of Ethics
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding— Book XI, Ch. 4
We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.
chuck hagel—
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.
Nathan Hale— Statement to Captain William Hull prior to his spying mission, as quoted in "Captain Nathan Hale (1755 - 1776)" by Rev. Edward Everett Hale.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Sheridaniana, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
i. f. stone— The Haunted Fifties (1963)
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
xi jinping— As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" in cctv.com English (1 May 2013)
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
zeno of citium— As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
benjamin disraeli— Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell [1].
An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
millard fillmore— Speech (13 September 1844), Buffalo, New York, quoted in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (14 September 1844). Fillmore had lost the Whig nomination for governor of New York. The newspaper summary was: "He entreated them to enter the contest with zeal and enthusiasm; but as they valued the sacredness of their cause, and the stability of their principles, to resort to no unfair means: that an honorable defeat was better than a dishonorable victory."
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
felix frankfurter— Of Law and Life and Other Things: Papers and Address of Felix Frankfurter (1965).
Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes ; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw— Preface (The Doctor's Dilemma (1911))
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 147 (Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012))
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de— p. 185. (Reflections and Maxims (1746))
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.
— Dejan Stojanovic in “Inner Space”
That above all, the friendship existing between the English East India Company and Travancore should be maintained at any risk and that full confidence should always be placed in the support and aid of honorable association.
— Marthanda Varma on his last message to his nephew Prince Rama Varma, in Travancore State Manual: with foreword by Ved from Victoria Institutions, P.23 This book is available for free on this link
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent . it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
— I. F. Stone, The Haunted Fifties (1963).
If we take away this foundation, that man is by nature foolish and sinful, fallen short of the glorious image of God, the Christian system falls at once; nor will it deserve as honorable an appellation as that of a cunningly devised fable.
— John Wesley, p. 190. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
What find you better or more honorable than age? Take the preeminence of it in everything; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
— Shakerley-Marmion, Antiquary, Act II, scene 1.
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
— As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
"And they, the said right honorable, honorable and worthy trustees before mentioned, having maturely considered the reasons and arguments in favor of the several places proposed, have given the preference to the western part of our said province, lying on Connecticut river, as a situation most convenient for said school."
— Dartmouth College Charter, December 13th, 1769 before George III of Great Britain.
