"If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it."
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"I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor."
"Honor your commitments with integrity."
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement."
"A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead."
"Necessity never made a good bargain."
"The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy."
"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."
"A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers."
"The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering."
"Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment."
"The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you."
"...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to being that which can be chosen, yet each person must on his part choose. God is not mocked. Therefore the matter stands thus: If a person avoids choosing, this is the same as the presumption of choosing the world."
"I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us."
"It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven."
"I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass."
"The way you talk to your teammates and push them and the way you treat them is important. There is a fine line between trying to help your teammates and criticizing them. The toughest part for me is how to keep my teammates accountable but at the same time do it in a loving way that doesnt judge or condemn them. It's definitely been a struggle and I'm trying to learn how to lead consciously in a way that honors God."
"The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us."
"Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor."
"The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative."