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Avenues to Honor 

Honor Quotes for College Students *

• What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
  - H.P. Liddon, 1829-1890, Clergyman, Oxford University Professor
• Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
  - Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, 28th President of the United States
• In this world of give and take there are few who are willing to give what it takes.
  - Unknown
• While it may be tough to trick an honest man, it's easy to fool someone who thinks himself to be clever.
  - A nineteenth century German diplomat
• Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
  - John Ruskin, 1819-1900, British writer, art critic and social reformer
• Champions don't become champions on the field - they are merely recognized there.
  - Bob Costas, born 1952, American Sportscaster
• Live your life so that your children can tell their children that you not only stood for something wonderful - you acted on it.
  - Dan Zadra, Business CEO, authority on strategic communications
• Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
  - Voltaire, 1597-1648, French writer
• The best thing you can do is get good at being you.
  - Dennis the Menace, Comic Book Character
• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of you own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from other living creatures. - Bruce Barton, 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive, Religious Writer, Copy Writer and United States Congressman
• Personality is the supreme realization of the innate individuality of a particular living being. Personality is an act of the greatest courage in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, and the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom of personal decision.
  - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swedish psychologist, psychiatrist
  
  This is the FIRST "official" Avenues quote sent. I began sending them to my daughter at the US Coast Guard Academy during her Swab Summer of 1996.
• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
  - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), 40AD-ca. 102 AD, Roman Poet
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
  - Mohandas Gandhi, 1869-1948, Hindu national leader
  Aka Mahatma in India. Spelling also Mohandis
• The work praises the man.
  - Irish proverb
• Examine the contents, not the bottle.
  - The Talmud, (B.C. 500?-400? B.C.)
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
  but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
  - Chinese proverb
• One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
  - Helen Merrell Lynd, 1896-1982, American sociologist and social philosopher
• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
  - William Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, English novelist, play wright, dramatist, and short-story writer
• The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
  - Camillo Benso di Cavour, 1810-1861, Italian Statesman
• Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves
  - Thomas L. Monson (Information unknown)
• I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
  - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Indian mystic, poet, dramatist, and artist
• "Do it now" is more than a motto; it is a way of life. Character grows when 'do it now' becomes a habit.
  - William Arthur Ward, 1921-1994, American newspaper editor, writer, educator
• At every single moment of one's life, one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
  - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish poet, playwright, novelist, wit
• The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
  - Unknown
• Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
  - Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), c. 55-127 A.D., Roman Poet
• After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him...
  The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
  - Will Rogers, American humorist, actor
• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
  - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, 1803-1873, English novelist, politician
• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
  - Henry Drummond, 1786-1860, British Banker, Politician, Religious Leader

Remarks on Honor from Commencement Speeches 

Oberlin College - May 26, 2008

If you want to make a good life, human beings will probably respect and reward those talents that they have always honored - intelligence and hard work, discipline and cooperation, honesty and courage, and perhaps above all, love and faith and hope. If you can embrace these qualities of mind and spirit, people will honor you as they have honored men and women for thousands of years.

Fareed Zakaria - CNN host and author

Links to Other Sites about Honor in College 

How to Get Caught!

The Saucy Pedantic Wretch writes about what prompted him to open the Academic Integrity Incident Report.

Where is the Success With Honor?

It is a way for the rest of the college football world to chuckle. As far as the subject of Joe Paterno as head coach of the Nittany Lions; put me in the camp that is undecided. Ivan Maisel writes an excellent article on Paterno. ...

Academic Dishonesty

A very interesting study examining whether insurance students are different from other college students.

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Books about honor on Amazon 

Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

by Jim Sheeler

Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/26/2008)

Rules (Newbery Honor Book)

by Cynthia Lord

Amazon Price: $10.87 (as of 07/26/2008)

Death and Honor (Honor Bound)

by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV

Amazon Price: $17.79 (as of 07/26/2008)

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