Quotes with honorable

  • 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.
  • Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
  • The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

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  • George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Horace A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • C. S. Lewis As for wrinkles-Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Maya Angelou At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anita Roddick 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.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Nathan Hale Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • François Rabelais He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Henry Fielding His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Colette I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Angelina Grimke I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Steve Jobs I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Thomas Moore If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • R. H. Hutton In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
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  • Abraham Lincoln In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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