Quotes with honor

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  • Thomas Carlyle Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Benjamin Watson The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Mark Twain The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Richard Nixon The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Camille Paglia The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bernard Joseph Saurin The law often permits what honor prohibits.
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  • Blaine Lee The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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