Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

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

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

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

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

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

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

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

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

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

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

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

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

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

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

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

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

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

What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

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

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

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

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

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

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

When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy use of the English language perpetuates the myth that animals are inferior and disposable beings.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

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

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

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

Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Against every great and noble endeavor stand a thousand mediocre minds.