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Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Family Passion You Believe

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

Born More Fortune Throne

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Best Hope Freedom Lose

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Life Me Place Choice

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Man Democracy Government Worth

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Life Mistakes Doing Nothing More

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Theodore Roosevelt

Children Name Want Leave

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Intelligence Believe Smart View

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

Government Easy Office First

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

You People Black Feel

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

God Peace Man Brotherhood

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

Man Black Opportunity White

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Always Permissible

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You Place Reach Rank

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You Thought Said Should

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hope Confidence Trust Mind

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

Viktor E. Frankl

Positive Achievement Man Way

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Failure Trust People Appreciate

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

People Men Who Very

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

Malala Yousafzai

Women Honor Your Daughters

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Person Liberty Restraint His

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Time Look Effort Nobody

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Humility Pride Her Often

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Love Work Best World

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Good Judge Faithful Ever

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

War Think Goodness Two

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