Honor

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  • It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
        Alfred Alder   Best?
  • I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
        John Adams   Best?
  • Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
        Proverb   Best?
  • All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
        Dinesh D'Souza   Best?
  • We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
        Holly Lisle   Best?
  • The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
        Robinson Jeffers   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
        Leonardo da Vinci   Best?
  • A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
        Alexander Humboldt   Best?
  • Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
        Bob Dylan   Best?
  • Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
        Confucious   Best?
  • One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  • The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
        Ray Bradbury   Best?
  • Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
        Mae West   Best?
  • Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
        Charles Lamb   Best?
  • Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
        Cicero   Best?
  • It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
        Albert Einstein   Best?

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