Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

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

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

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

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

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

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

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

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

From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God.

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

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

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

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

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

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

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

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

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

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

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

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

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.