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"Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people." »Welsh Proverb
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"He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man." »William Shakespeare
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"A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality." »Pindar
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"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." »Henry Clay
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"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." »Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable." »Sophocles, Creusa
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"honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor." »Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]
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"The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable." »Sophocles
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"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." »Peter Cooper
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"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it." »Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all." »Leo Rosten
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." »Unknown
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"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine." »Paul Gruchow
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"...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet." »Hermann Hesse
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