Best 1847 quotes in «honor quotes» category

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.

It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own.  It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.

It's a badge of honor to have your name called by Trump and be made a nickname.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor.  (upon receiving the OBE)

It's always an honor and a scary experience to sing new music.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

It's a time to stop, honor and reflect on the abundance, prosperity, people and lives we are blessed with.

It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

It's been such a privilege and an honor to be writing this book [he Pleiadian Promise]. It's really changed my life, and it has absorbed my every waking moment for months. I'm going to be relieved to put that aside and just release it, because it's been a lot, not too much; it's been very glorious, but it has been a lot for me.

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

It's an honor to serve, to have run with the president-elect [Donald Trump] and to have the opportunity to serve with him, but I've also become very fond of him . We've become good friends.

It's amazing what people will do when you see the best in them, when you honor them, when you respect them. It not only strengthens the relationship, but it will help that other person rise higher.

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he who is the highest of all, chose to be addressed simply as “Father.”