Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 348 Honor quotesHonor QuotesHonor Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.~ Sir Roger L'Estrange Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettos and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettos and barrios would be the second wand.~ Richard Lamm Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.~ Lao-Tzu To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.~ Lao-Tzu The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.~ Lao-Tzu [O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.~ Frances Moore Lappé Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.~ Lucy Larcom I hate it when they say, “He gave his life for his country.” Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.~ Admiral Gene LaRocque Every State is known by the rights it maintains.~ Harold J. Laski It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.~ Paul F. Lazarsfeld You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.~ Robert E. Lee ...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.~ Robert E. Lee Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand.~ Robert E. Lee The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max Lerner Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.~ C. S. Lewis A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.~ C. S. Lewis It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...~ Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power.~ Abraham Lincoln When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.~ Abraham Lincoln With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.~ Abraham Lincoln Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print