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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Childhood Age Old Age Immortality

I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.

Myself Best People Mistakes

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

Man Democracy Government Worth

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Honor Everybody Were Would

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

Shadows Angels Fairies Far

I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.

Good Me Courage I Am

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Character Men Belong Which

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

Benigno Aquino III

Life Good Simple Son

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

George Bernard Shaw

Life Mistakes Nothing Doing More

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Children Name Leave Want

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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

Good Me You People

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

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

Liberty Person Restraint His

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

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

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

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

Work Good God Good Work

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 Black People Feel

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Always Permissible

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Russell M. Nelson

Love You Care Choose

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

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

Family Respect World Place

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

Life Good Business Money

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 Effort Look Nobody

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Death Evil Therefore

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

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