Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

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.

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.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

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

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

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

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.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

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.

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.

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Ego is vital but not noble.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

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?

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.