Honorable Quotes

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. (Jules Renard)
Lovely and honorable is to die for one's country. View quote
Horace
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. View quote
Petrarch
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. View quote
Zeno of Citium
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. View quote
Maya Angelou
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? View quote
Harriet Martineau
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. (Henry Clay)
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. View quote
Thomas More
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. View quote
Graham Greene
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
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. View quote
Steven Brust
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour. View quote
Livy
His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. View quote
Henry Fielding
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them. View quote
William Wordsworth
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. View quote
Sophocles
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. (Ronald Reagan)
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. View quote
Anita Roddick
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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." View quote
James Madison