John Cho Quotes

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

I pride myself on being kind.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.