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If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige? — Zora Neale Hurston

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

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding. — Henry David Thoreau

With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Because if Grandpa Portman wasn't honorable and good, I wasn't sure anyone could be. — Ransom Riggs

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy. — Caroline B. Cooney

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. — Jules Renard

Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. — Noam Chomsky

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

All aspects of honor derive from honesty. A liar cannot truly be honorable, for where is the honor in deception? — Keith R.A. DeCandido

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. — Petrarch

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him. — Laura Anderson Kurk

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. — Thomas More

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. — Sallust

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. — Bergen Evans

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. — Confucius

Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady
Tremaine. — Sherry Thomas

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now. — Charlotte Lennox

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. — William Bradford

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable. — Wayne Rogers

If you have led an honorable and honest life, there is no need to be afraid of speaking the truth. The — Haemin Sunim

The visit promised to be more honorable than agreeable, and Maggie almost wished herself at home again. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen. — Benigno Aquino III

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. — Wendell Willkie

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse. — Jasper Fforde

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment. — Plutarch

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar. — George W. Melville

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester. — Philippe Petit

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest. — William J. Clinton

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. — Moliere

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be. — Shannon L. Alder

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. — Akio Morita

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. — Edward Gibbon

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Nathan Hale

Be honest.
Be kind.
Be honorable.
Work hard.
And always be awesome. — Wil Wheaton

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself. — Irwin Edman

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. — Robert Louis Stevenson

In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail. — Jose Rizal

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both. — Cassandra Clare

The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way. — Neal Stephenson

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. — Jane Harrison

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time. — Mahatma Gandhi

Some men are honorable because of the example set for them, others, choose to be honorable in spite of it — Margaret Mallory

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? — Charles Sumner