Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

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

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

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

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

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

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.