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• Pay no attention to what a critic says. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

  ~ Jean Sibelius quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Critics, Honor

• Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

  ~ Teddy Roosevelt quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Honor

• How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Action, Habit, Honor

• Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life, Honor

• Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

  ~ Henry Ford quotes

  Inspirational Quotes on: Goals, Success, Talent, Honor

• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Live, Emerson, Life, Passion, Happy, Honor

• To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

  ~ David McCullough quotes from 1776

  Motivational Quotes on: Live, Edge, Honor

• [to his troops before entering battle:] Strength and Honor. Strength and Honor. Strength and Honor. Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be and it will be so. Hold the line, stay with me. If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled! For you are in Elysium. You are already dead! [soldier laugh] Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

  ~ Maximus quotes from Gladiator

  Motivational Quotes on: Laugh, Life, Strength, Honor

• Some consider setbacks a badge of honor, unmistakable proof they’re bold risk takers. Far from hiding their blunders, they brag about them.

  ~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation

  Inspirational Quotes on: Risk, Unknown, Mistake, Bad, Takers, Honor, Bold

• The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

  Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Live, Emerson, Life, Passion, Compassion, Happy, Honor