Honorable
Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.
Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.
Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.
Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.
Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.
Of reputable association or use; respectable.
An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman.
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Honorable Quotations
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tupac Shakur
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell
Honorable Translations
honorable in German is ehrenwert
honorable in Latin is honestus, ingenuus
honorable in Spanish is honorable
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