Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

... 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

... they are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

'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 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.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

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

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

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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