Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Votes: 4
Martin LutherNoble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWe believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths. Votes: 3
Dalai LamaNoble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. Votes: 3
HoraceNoble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. Votes: 3
William DunbarNoble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. Votes: 3
Barbara MertzNoble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. Votes: 3
James E. FaustNoble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. Votes: 3
TacitusNoble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. Votes: 3
Honore de BalzacAt one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. Votes: 3
Richard Paul EvansFine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? Votes: 3
LaoziNoble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Votes: 2
Gary HamelMy fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. Votes: 2
George WeahSafeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Votes: 2
Khalil GibranA noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. Votes: 2
Jean RacineTo be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Votes: 2
Mark TwainI don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness Votes: 2
Egon SchieleStill this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowImitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThere are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. Votes: 0
Colleen McCulloughNothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. Votes: 0
Henry Home, Lord Kamesnever was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. Votes: 0
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikBack of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. Votes: 0
George Horace LorimerNumerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinServility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. Votes: 0
Hosea BallouMeditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. Votes: 0
Andrew WeilFor words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. Votes: 0
Algernon Charles SwinburneAll which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireAgriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man Votes: 0
George WashingtonEverything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireThe task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted. Votes: 0
Soren KierkegaardSometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. Votes: 0
Edward DowdenFor young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacThe noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. Votes: 0
ConfuciusOver the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. Votes: 0
Thomas SowellTo appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldTruth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciTrue, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!.. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanI understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions. Votes: 0
Andre Mikhailovich SolonitsynA noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaThere is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. Votes: 0
Jaime LernerFord's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. Votes: 0
Ford Madox FordTo deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. Votes: 0
Jimmy CarterServe a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. Votes: 0
George HerbertNo-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. Votes: 0
Giovanni BoccaccioChill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Votes: 0
Thomas GrayIdealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyThose who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. Votes: 0
Linji YixuanA noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. Votes: 0
Philip SidneyAll noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningIf you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession. Votes: 0
Jeff LindsayAll noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. Votes: 0
William Ellery ChanningPolitical society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Votes: 0
Aristotle[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results. Votes: 0
Friedrich PanethTeaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. Votes: 0
Mark Kostabi. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Votes: 0
AristotleReligion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Votes: 0
Christopher MorleyLearn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû`ah). Votes: 0
UmarThe only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonTo live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. Votes: 0
Joshua ChamberlainIt is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. Votes: 0
Charles Forbes Rene de MontalembertSometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. Votes: 0
Robin WilliamsBeing a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. Votes: 0
Herbert HooverThere is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; Votes: 0
Alexander the GreatThe surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThere is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. Votes: 0
Jane PorterLove is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonThere is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. Votes: 0
William Wordsworth'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinThere is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke. Votes: 0
William Ralph IngeThink that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertThe shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit. Votes: 0
Mark LeibovichThat which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareYet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. Votes: 0
HoraceThough plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsFor a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. Votes: 0
William ShakespearePolitics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerPatience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. Votes: 0
George WashingtonA noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleRidicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. Votes: 0
Walter ScottIsaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you? Votes: 0
Richelle MeadIt is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] Votes: 0
StatiusLove makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. Votes: 0
Jean GenetThe great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWhat is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. Votes: 0
John RuskinAmerica - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Votes: 0
Herbert HooverFeeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble. Votes: 0
Idries ShahIt is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Votes: 0
Francis BeaumontPerhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy. Votes: 0
Kathleen McGowanIf all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauA noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. Votes: 0
Robert GreeneHe who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer. Votes: 0
Samuel RutherfordO Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. Votes: 0
Paul LafargueBy which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health. Votes: 0
Lewis CarrollI shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. Votes: 0
Thomas MaloryComedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose. Votes: 0
Margaret ChoNature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. Votes: 0
Karl BlossfeldtThe most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouEndurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. Votes: 0
John LubbockNature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. Votes: 0
George SantayanaOne of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms. Votes: 0
Ida TarbellSuffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleTruth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. Votes: 0
Gerrit SmithI'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. Votes: 0
George SandThat country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. Votes: 0
John RuskinHe who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana. Votes: 0
BuddhaTo this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Votes: 0
David McCulloughIn the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. Votes: 0
J. William FulbrightI count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God. Votes: 0
Bill VaughanWhile I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeLabor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. Votes: 0
Frances Sargent OsgoodThere is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life. Votes: 0
Monica RaymundHave all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Votes: 0
Ada CambridgeMaybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. Votes: 0
Scott WesterfeldDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? Votes: 0
George EliotDo come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceBe noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerWhen a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauLaws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action. Votes: 0
George HammondAgain I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. Votes: 0
Jean FroissartHealth is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPhilosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerPleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. Votes: 0
AristotleThe noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerI consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonA noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. Votes: 0
Jeremiah BurroughsOf every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. Votes: 0
William Wetmore StoryCommon men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. Votes: 0
Pope Pius IILove is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself. Votes: 0
Ibi KaslikAll honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! Votes: 0
Elizabeth Cady StantonI never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? Votes: 0
Ivy Compton-BurnettTo my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. Votes: 0
Mark TwainLife is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. Votes: 0
Ayn RandThere is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. Votes: 0
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerTo do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. Votes: 0
Mark TwainIt is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. Votes: 0
MenciusThere are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body, Votes: 0
Fauja SinghLove is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love. Votes: 0
Robert GreeneIf there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. Votes: 0
Michael MooreThe genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot. Votes: 0
Orel HershiserPain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. Votes: 0
John SterlingNothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember. Votes: 0
Kate SeredyWe are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. Votes: 0
Terence McKennaA sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. Votes: 0
David MalletOne is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaIf you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfThe third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronI play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan. Votes: 0
Guy ClarkVery few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time. Votes: 0
Gertrude LawrenceHe who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. Votes: 0
Egerton BrydgesI have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. Votes: 0
Katharine TynanAmid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauLiterature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. Votes: 0
Edgar Allan PoeI regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it. Votes: 0
Richard WagnerWhat ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenGeorge Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. Votes: 0
Mark ShieldsI am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. Votes: 0
P. G. WodehouseA dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist. Votes: 0
Mary OliverExplain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinIn the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. Votes: 0
Antonin DvorakI tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic." Votes: 0
Yann MartelIt is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. Votes: 0
PlatoIt is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. Votes: 0
Fernando PessoaI hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all. Votes: 0
Patricia FinneyPiense usted que siempre es más noble engañarse alguna vez que desconfiar siempre.
Jacinto BenaventeUn hombre de noble corazón irá muy lejos, guiado por la palabra gentil de una mujer.
Johann Wolfgang GoetheLa fidelidad es el esfuerzo de un alma noble para igualarse a otra más grande que ella
Johann W. GoethePara juzgar cosas grandes y nobles es necesario poseer un alma otro tanto grande y noble
MontesquieuPara juzgar cosas grandes y nobles, es necesario poseer un alma igual de grande y noble.
Michel de MontaignePara juzgar cosas grandes y nobles, es necesario poseer un alma igual de grande y noble.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne¡Oh, qué noble corazón fue destrozado aquí, cuando la propia ciencia mató al hijo predilecto!
Lord ByronHe competido en la noble competición, he llegado a la meta en la carrera, he conservado la fe
San PabloEl hombre noble conserva durante toda su vida la ingenuidad e inocencia propias de la infancia
ConfucioLa felicidad es al mismo tiempo la mejor, la más noble y la más placentera de todas las cosas.
AristótelesNunca la filosofía, en su más noble sentido, ha tenido tanta importancia como en la era de Stalin
Roger GaraudyLa sangre noble es un accidente de la fortuna; las acciones nobles caracterizan al verdadero grande
Giuseppe BarettiAt one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. Votes: 1 Richard Paul Evans
... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation. Votes: 3 Sid Brown
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms. Votes: 2 Jack Horner
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. Votes: 2 Tacitus
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world. Votes: 3 Pema Chodron