Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?