Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.

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

The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

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

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

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

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

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

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

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

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

The noble must make humility his root.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

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

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful — is the clearest exception of all.

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

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

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

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

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

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

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

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.

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

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

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

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

There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.