Avenues to Honor

Avenues to Honor

Honor Quotes for College Students *

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• Mountains can never reach each other, despite their bigness. But humans can.

  
  
  

       - Afghan proverb

  
  Image source: War News Update, June. 12, 2008

• What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

       - Sappho, fl. BC 600, Greek lyric poet

  
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  He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
  

        - Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974, American journalist, writer, reporter, and political commentator

  
  Image source: Life: National Purpose

• Have respect for your species...
       You are a man; do not dishonor mankind.
  

       - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss/French philosopher and author

  
  Image source: Children's Literature of the Eighteenth Century
  

• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself t
  - Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 A.D., Roman Emperor, Stoic philosopher

  
  Image source: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors

• In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at half time.
  - Unknown
• If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
  
  

        - Captain Samuel P. Ginder, US Navy

  
  
  Image source: USS Enterprise CV-6

• A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.     - Proverb

  
  
  Image source: Guilt, Shame and Public Life

• My own self, at my very best, all the time.

     Motto of the American Youth Foundation Camp

  
  

  
  Image source: American Youth Foundation Camp Merrowvista - Center Tuftonboro, NH

• Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
  
  

          - Polybius, (ca. 200-118 BC), Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period

  
  

  
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  I am a big believer in the "mirror test." All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
  - John McKay, 1923-2001, American football coach.
  
  Image source: BuckStop.com

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  We have forty million reasons for failure...
  but not a single excuse.
  
  

       - Rudyard Kipling , 1865-1936, English novelist, poet, short story writer

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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  Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.
  
  

        - Myrtle Reed, 1879-1977, American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist

  
  

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  The image source is a very interesting article about the life of Myrtle Reed in Chicago Magazine: Hell in Paradise Flat
  

• The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
       - Wilhelm Stekel, 1868-1940, physician and psychologist

  
  

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        The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
      

  
  

  - Thomas Morell, also attributed as a French proverb and to Frederic Morell. 

  
  

  I have no information on either Thomas or Frederic.
  

• Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
       - Laurence J. Peter, 1919-1990, educator and author, best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.

  
  

  
  
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•      Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
       - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, 1715-1769, German poet

  
  

  
  Painting by Anton Graff (after 1769)
  Image source: Wikipedia

• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
      - Rev. Dr. Dale E. Turner, 1917-2006, American clergyman and author

  
  

  
  
  Read an interesting post on mistakes at the image source:
  Ever made a mistake?
  

   

• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
       - Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress

  
  

  
  Image source: flickr.com -"Colt .45" film still - Randolph Scott and Charles Evans

  
  

  
  
  

  
  

   

  
  

   

• As to values, I was taught - and still believe - that a sense of honor is necessary to personal self-respect; that duty, recognizing an individual's subordination to community welfare, is as important as rights; . . .
       - Lewis F. Powell, 1907-1998, Associate Justice United States Supreme Court

  
  

  
  
  Image sorce: Wikipedia profile of Associate Supreme Court Justice Powell

• Honor is the reward of virtue.
       - Marcus T.Cicero, 106-43 BCE, Roman statesman, orator, writer

  
  

   
  Image source: Post - Breathtaking views of Kazakhstan nature in the Kazakhstan travel and tourism blog

• Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
       - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet, playwrite, novelist, dramatist, philisopher

  
  

   
  Image source: Life Is a Mirror Reflecting Back to You
  by Maxine Whitfield
  in a post in FriendsBurst
  

• Live a good and honorable life, then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
       - Unknown

  
  

  
  Image source: Isabel's blog

  
  

  Isabel writes in her post about her favorite character in To Kill a Mocking Bird:

  
  

  My favorite character is Atticus. I like they way that he stands up for others even though he knows he is going to be beat.He also knows a lot of things, he is very intelligent. Atticu's most endearing quality is the way he stands up for the right thing.