Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from elegance.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

The noble must make humility his root.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful — is the clearest exception of all.

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.

There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

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 no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

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

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’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 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.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

... 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.

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.

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.

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