Honorable quotes
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other."
"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it."
"If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like."
"I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one."
"What is permissible is not always honorable."
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"The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace."
"In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning."
"Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion."
"I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable."
"The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can."
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
"To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding."
"There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success."
"Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism."
"The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish."
"I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy."
"He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word."
"I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do."
"My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time."
"It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable."
"Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one."
"Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines."
"It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not."
"We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his."
