Quotes about Noble

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Votes: 6

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. Votes: 5

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Votes: 4

Every noble work is at first impossible. Votes: 4

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. Votes: 4

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Votes: 4

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Votes: 4

Noble spirits are heterodox. Votes: 3

Noble houskeepers neede no dores. Votes: 3

Noble fathers have noble children. Votes: 3

Noble be man, helpful and good! Votes: 3

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Votes: 3

Noble discontent is the path to heaven. Votes: 3

Do noble things, not dream them all day long. Votes: 3

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others. Votes: 3

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life. Votes: 3

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both? Votes: 3

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. Votes: 3

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. Votes: 3

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths. Votes: 3

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. Votes: 3

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. Votes: 3

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. Votes: 3

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. Votes: 3

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. Votes: 3

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. Votes: 3

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. Votes: 3

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? Votes: 3

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. Votes: 3

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created. Votes: 3

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts. Votes: 3

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. Votes: 3

Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. Votes: 3

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. Votes: 2

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. Votes: 2

No speech can stain what is noble by nature. Votes: 2

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Votes: 2

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. Votes: 2

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Votes: 2

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. Votes: 2

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. Votes: 2

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. Votes: 2

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Votes: 2

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. Votes: 2

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Votes: 2

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness Votes: 2

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Votes: 2

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. Votes: 2

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. Votes: 2

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Votes: 2

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. Votes: 2

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. Votes: 2

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! Votes: 2

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Votes: 2

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Votes: 2

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Votes: 2

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Votes: 2

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Votes: 2

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me. Votes: 2

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. Votes: 2

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. Votes: 2

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. Votes: 2

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. Votes: 2

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Votes: 2

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football. Votes: 2

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet. Votes: 2

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. Votes: 2

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. Votes: 2

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty. Votes: 1

My love's a noble madness. Votes: 0

Solemn silence makes noble worship. Votes: 0

Comedy is a noble art. Votes: 0

The noble soul reveres itself Votes: 0

What's so noble about being dead? Votes: 0

The noble style immobilizes its subjects. Votes: 0

A noble book! all men's book! Votes: 0

Love so pure, love so noble! Votes: 0

Ego is vital but not noble. Votes: 0

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. Votes: 0

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty Votes: 0

Being a musician is a noble profession. Votes: 0

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined. Votes: 0

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. Votes: 0

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood. Votes: 0

In high vengeance there is noble scorn. Votes: 0

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts Votes: 0

A noble truth is a sacred creed. Votes: 0

The noble must make humility his root. Votes: 0

To generous souls every task is noble. Votes: 0

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. Votes: 0

Often a noble face hides filthy ways. Votes: 0

The noble man is only God's image. Votes: 0

No noble man ever hated good wine. Votes: 0

The noble man is only God's image. Votes: 0

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. Votes: 0

Every noble activity makes room for itself. Votes: 0

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence. Votes: 0

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference. Votes: 0

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble. Votes: 0

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. Votes: 0

In right and service to their noble country. Votes: 0

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. Votes: 0

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation. Votes: 0

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus. Votes: 0

A noble deed is a step towards heaven. Votes: 0

No noble thing can be done without risks. Votes: 0

Love is divineLove is pure.Love is noble. Votes: 0

A noble deed is a step toward God. Votes: 0

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. Votes: 0

Tears are the noble language of the eye. Votes: 0

A sense of justice is a noble fancy. Votes: 0

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly. Votes: 0

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. Votes: 0

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty. Votes: 0

Now my belly is as noble as my heart. Votes: 0

The noble temptation to see too much in everything. Votes: 0

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Votes: 0

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all. Votes: 0

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors. Votes: 0

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] Votes: 0

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more. Votes: 0

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. Votes: 0

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die. Votes: 0

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. Votes: 0

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls. Votes: 0

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. Votes: 0

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground. Votes: 0

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat. Votes: 0

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. Votes: 0

Better not be at all than not be noble. Votes: 0

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words. Votes: 0

Use the noble gifts which God has given you! Votes: 0

Be noble in every thought And in every deed! Votes: 0

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Votes: 0

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble. Votes: 0

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. Votes: 0

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. Votes: 0

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. Votes: 0

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries. Votes: 0

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation. Votes: 0

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. Votes: 0

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. Votes: 0

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble. Votes: 0

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men. Votes: 0

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. Votes: 0

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings Votes: 0

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. Votes: 0

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. Votes: 0

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. Votes: 0

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. Votes: 0

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. Votes: 0

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale Votes: 0

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending. Votes: 0

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear. Votes: 0

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer... Votes: 0

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man. Votes: 0

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease. Votes: 0

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime. Votes: 0

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts. Votes: 0

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind! Votes: 0

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. Votes: 0

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds. Votes: 0

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. Votes: 0

There is a noble and a base side to every history. Votes: 0

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world. Votes: 0

There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. Votes: 0

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. Votes: 0

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. Votes: 0

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. Votes: 0

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Votes: 0

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. Votes: 0

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. Votes: 0

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, Votes: 0

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind. Votes: 0

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. Votes: 0

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Votes: 0

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Votes: 0

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. Votes: 0

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. Votes: 0

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. Votes: 0

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. Votes: 0

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble. Votes: 0

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea. Votes: 0

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits. Votes: 0

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self. Votes: 0

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart. Votes: 0

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows. Votes: 0

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. Votes: 0

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it. Votes: 0

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base. Votes: 0

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do. Votes: 0

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. Votes: 0

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life. Votes: 0

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. Votes: 0

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third. Votes: 0

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one. Votes: 0

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. Votes: 0

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. Votes: 0

Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve. Votes: 0

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. Votes: 0

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do. Votes: 0

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. Votes: 0

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. Votes: 0

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble. Votes: 0

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party. Votes: 0

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. Votes: 0

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds Votes: 0

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Votes: 0

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble. Votes: 0

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. Votes: 0

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve. Votes: 0

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. Votes: 0

If you have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts. Votes: 0

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things. Votes: 0

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. Votes: 0

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be. Votes: 0

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. Votes: 0

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself. Votes: 0

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth. Votes: 0

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form. Votes: 0

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail. Votes: 0

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. Votes: 0

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Votes: 0

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Votes: 0

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong. Votes: 0

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. Votes: 0

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law. Votes: 0

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. Votes: 0

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. Votes: 0

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created. Votes: 0

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. Votes: 0

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love. Votes: 0

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. Votes: 0

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. Votes: 0

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. Votes: 0

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. Votes: 0

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? Votes: 0

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted. Votes: 0

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. Votes: 0

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. Votes: 0

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. Votes: 0

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls. Votes: 0

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble. Votes: 0

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition. Votes: 0

One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy. Votes: 0

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble. Votes: 0

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man Votes: 0

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Votes: 0

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Votes: 0

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. Votes: 0

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession. Votes: 0

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. Votes: 0

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. Votes: 0

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. Votes: 0

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. Votes: 0

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. Votes: 0

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. Votes: 0

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Votes: 0

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene Votes: 0

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Votes: 0

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others. Votes: 0

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal. Votes: 0

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. Votes: 0

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. Votes: 0

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones Votes: 0

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Votes: 0

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. Votes: 0

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Votes: 0

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.) Votes: 0

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû`ah). Votes: 0

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns. Votes: 0

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. Votes: 0

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. Votes: 0

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. Votes: 0

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world. Votes: 0

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Votes: 0

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Votes: 0

Humans can be noble. The question is: Will we put forth what is necessary? Votes: 0

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority. Votes: 0

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions. Votes: 0

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!.. Votes: 0

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble. Votes: 0

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero. Votes: 0

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results. Votes: 0

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. Votes: 0

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving. Votes: 0

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Votes: 0

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble. Votes: 0

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. Votes: 0

Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. Votes: 0

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you? Votes: 0

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] Votes: 0

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. Votes: 0

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble. Votes: 0

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Votes: 0

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. Votes: 0

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. Votes: 0

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. Votes: 0

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. Votes: 0

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid. Votes: 0

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. Votes: 0

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. Votes: 0

Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path. Votes: 0

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. Votes: 0

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; Votes: 0

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. Votes: 0

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. Votes: 0

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. Votes: 0

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Votes: 0

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. Votes: 0

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. Votes: 0

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. Votes: 0

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes... Votes: 0

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke. Votes: 0

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done. Votes: 0

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit. Votes: 0

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. Votes: 0

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Votes: 0

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. Votes: 0

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. Votes: 0

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Votes: 0

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. Votes: 0

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana. Votes: 0

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. Votes: 0

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. Votes: 0

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms. Votes: 0

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years. Votes: 0

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. Votes: 0

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. Votes: 0

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. Votes: 0

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. Votes: 0

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. Votes: 0

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. Votes: 0

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. Votes: 0

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health. Votes: 0

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose. Votes: 0

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer. Votes: 0

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. Votes: 0

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! Votes: 0

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. Votes: 0

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy. Votes: 0

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ... Votes: 0

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble. Votes: 0

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. Votes: 0

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. Votes: 0

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. Votes: 0

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world. Votes: 0

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. Votes: 0

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? Votes: 0

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up. Votes: 0

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. Votes: 0

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. Votes: 0

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. Votes: 0

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. Votes: 0

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others. Votes: 0

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life. Votes: 0

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. Votes: 0

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. Votes: 0

Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself. Votes: 0

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. Votes: 0

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. Votes: 0

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons. Votes: 0

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? Votes: 0

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! Votes: 0

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. Votes: 0

I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements. Votes: 0

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Votes: 0

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action. Votes: 0

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. Votes: 0

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security. Votes: 0

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. Votes: 0

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. Votes: 0

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. Votes: 0

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. Votes: 0

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. Votes: 0

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends. Votes: 0

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. Votes: 0

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves. Votes: 0

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners. Votes: 0

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. Votes: 0

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. Votes: 0

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose. Votes: 0

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. Votes: 0

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. Votes: 0

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. Votes: 0

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble. Votes: 0

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. Votes: 0

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. Votes: 0

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love. Votes: 0

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. Votes: 0

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. Votes: 0

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble. Votes: 0

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession. Votes: 0

There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body, Votes: 0

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. Votes: 0

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. Votes: 0

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot. Votes: 0

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it. Votes: 0

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. Votes: 0

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. Votes: 0

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember. Votes: 0

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own. Votes: 0

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. Votes: 0

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. Votes: 0

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. Votes: 0

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity. Votes: 0

For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more. Votes: 0

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it. Votes: 0

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before Votes: 0

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Votes: 0

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. Votes: 0

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove. Votes: 0

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution. Votes: 0

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. Votes: 0

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism. Votes: 0

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons. Votes: 0

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? Votes: 0

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Votes: 0

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it. Votes: 0

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. Votes: 0

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time. Votes: 0

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk. Votes: 0

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. Votes: 0

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan. Votes: 0

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. Votes: 0

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. Votes: 0

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. Votes: 0

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. Votes: 0

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight. Votes: 0

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes. Votes: 0

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future. Votes: 0

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! Votes: 0

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. Votes: 0

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. Votes: 0

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. Votes: 0

India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides. Votes: 0

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. Votes: 0

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist. Votes: 0

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. Votes: 0

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people. Votes: 0

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. Votes: 0

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble. Votes: 0

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. Votes: 0

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. Votes: 0

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. Votes: 0

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. Votes: 0

I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic." Votes: 0

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. Votes: 0

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. Votes: 0

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. Votes: 0

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love. Votes: 0

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? Votes: 0

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. Votes: 0

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. Votes: 0

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. Votes: 0

Oi'm always noble, sir; it's in my blood. 'As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why? Votes: 0

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time. Votes: 0

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. Votes: 0

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... Votes: 0

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character Votes: 0

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms. Votes: 0

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive. Votes: 0

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. Votes: 0

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Votes: 0

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Votes: 0

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. Votes: 0

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. Votes: 0

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song. Votes: 0

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right. Votes: 0

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. Votes: 0

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. Votes: 0

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go. Votes: 0

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Votes: 0

It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself. Votes: 0

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all. Votes: 0

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press. Votes: 0

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. Votes: 0

Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal. Votes: 0

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough Votes: 0

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree. Votes: 0

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. Votes: 0

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. Votes: 0

I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible. Votes: 0

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. Votes: 0

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life. Votes: 0

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life. Votes: 0

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry. Votes: 0

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong. Votes: 0

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods. Votes: 0

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form. Votes: 0

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. Votes: 0

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature. Votes: 0