Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

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 it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

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.

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.

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

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.