Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

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

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'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 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 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 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.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

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

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

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.

... 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.

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

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

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 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.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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 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.

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

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 do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

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

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.

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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

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

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

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

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.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

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.

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.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

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?