Quotes 141 till 160 of 181.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
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The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.
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Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
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True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
A Distant Mirror -
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
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