Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

With Master as my Guide, I don't know my limitations and I blindly practice the Noble Way of Living to surprise myself at each step of the way.. THANKS MASTER

Yes, I'm sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don't have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.

You are brave and strong and good, noble and kind. I love you and I think you're...

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

You envisioned the idea of a Confessor for the right reasons. Life is truth. Truth is Life. You wanted a way to seek truth. Such a cause, in the promotion of life, is noble.

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.