Avenues to Honor

Avenues to Honor 

Honor Quotes for College Students *

• Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
  - Nathaniel Branden, Born 1930, American authority on assertiveness and self-esteem.
• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
  - Seneca, BCE 3-65 CE, Roman statesman, philosopher and writer
  
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• Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
  - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986, American artist
• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
  - Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian novelist and philosopher
  

  
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• It takes all kinds to make this world, but it's the good that sustain in the end.
  - Cyril Alexander Furtado, Teacher at Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India
• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
  - Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American author
• Unhappy the land that needs heroes.
  - Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German poet, playwright, theater director
• Nature everywhere has written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get further, which develops manhood and character.
  - John Miller
• If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
  - John Churton Collins, 1846-1908, English literary critic

• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
      
  - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German Philosopher

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
  - Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English essayist, philosopher, statesman
• Have you considered that if you don't make waves nobody, including yourself, will know that you are alive.
  - Theodore Isaac Rubin, Born 1923, American psychiatrist and author
• Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.
  - August B. Black
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• Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of mankind.
  - Mel Brooks, Born 1926, American director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer
• Loyalty above all else, except honor.
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• Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment.
  - Roy L. Smith
• You get more than you give when you give more than you get.
  - Unknown
• It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.
  - Scott O'Grady, Born 1965, Former United States Air Force captain who ejected over Bosnia when his F-16C was shot down by a Bosnian Serb SA-6 on June 2, 1995 while patrolling the no-fly zone.
• One's life work, I have learned, grows with the working and living. Do it as your life depended on it, and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too.
  - Theresa Helburn, 1887-1959, Broadway Producer, Writer, Director, Production Crew
• Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.
  - Proverb
• He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
  

      

  
  

  - Publilius Syrus, First century BC Roman writer

  
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• We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
  - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1780-1860, German philosopher
• Great minds have purposes, others have
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  - Washington Irving, 1783-1859

  
  
  

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• The ultimate experience is when you do something, not for acknowledgment or to get something, but just because it is right. And that will only come about when you've had the experience of caring at a deep level. That is where fulfillment comes from.
  - Tony Robbins, Born 1960, American self-help writer and professional speaker
• Goodness is not uneventful.
  It does not flash, it glows.
  - David Grayson, pen name of Ray Stannard Baker, 1870-1946, American journalist and author