Quotes from "Honorable " people

me ^ | 1/21/02 | Airborne

[airborne]

Thanks from BSA Troop 431, Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA.

[Lexington Green]

“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an 'Honest Man'.” — George Washington

[Doctor Doom]

"I didn't do nothing." -Brutus

(Okay, is somewhat arcane, but Shakespeare fans will get it.)

[petuniasevan]

"I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." Abraham Lincoln

[harpseal]

My Coumtry Right or Wrong my Country" - Stephen Decatur

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[petuniasevan]

Dignity does not consist of possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle

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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. - Thomas Sowell

[Maceman]

"To die with one's sword still in its sheath is most regrettable." -- Miyamoto Musashi

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A moose once bit my sister - author unknown

[petuniasevan]

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. -- Nicholas Boileau

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[pgkdan]

Here's the anti-honorable quote.

Well, that all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton

[Congressman Billybob]

Anything for the Boy Scouts, a honorable institution.

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Nathan Hale, before he was hung by the British as a "spy" for the Americans in New Haven, during the Revolutionary War.

Submitted by John Armor, Eagle Scout #11, Troup 35, Baltimore, Maryland; also Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. Order of the Arrow, etc.

Congressman Billybob

Click & bookmark for Phil & Billybob in the mornings.

[Congressman Billybob]

The author of your "moose bit my sister" quote is Monty Python. It appears in the opening credits of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Cheers,

yer Congresscritter, Billybob

[petuniasevan]

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. – Aristotle

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. – Sophocles

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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken. – Pietro Aretino

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Hold it the greatest wrong to prefer life to honor and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. – Juvenal

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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient,
unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. – Walter Lippmann

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When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life. – Henry L. Stimson

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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never....
In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense! – Winston Churchill

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[ArrogantBustard]

Robert E. Lee, writing to his son G. W. Custis Lee:

In regard to duty, let me inform you that nearly a hundred years ago there was a day of remarkable gloom and darkness still known as "the Dark Day" when the light of the sun was estinguished by an eclipse. The legislature of Connecticut was in session, and its members saw the unexpected and unaccountable darkness coming on, shared the awe and terror. Some thought it was the Last Day, the Day of Judgment. Someone in consternation moved an adjournment.

Then rose an old Puritan legislator, Devanport of Stanford, and said that if the Last Day had come, he desired to be found at his place, doing his duty, and, therefore, moved that candles be brought in so that the House could proceed with its duty.

There was quietness in that man's mind, the quietness of heavenly wisdom, an inflexible willingness to obey present duty.

Duty then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. Never let me and your mother wear one gray hair for any lack of duty on your part.

Your affectionate father, R. E. Lee.

[cschroe]

"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character."

-- Vince Lombardi

[petuniasevan]

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

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Honor is a decision we make to place high value, worth, and importance on another person by viewing him or her as a priceless gift and granting that person a position in our lives worthy of great respect. - Gary Smalley & John Trent

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[cschroe]

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

--- Theodore Roosevelt

[LaBradford22]

"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery."

-Winston Churchill

[petuniasevan]

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. -- Joseph Addison

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"I would lay down my life for America, but I cannot trifle with my honor."-- John Paul Jones

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[Senator Pardek]

"I did not #### honor." - William Jefferson Clinton