Best 491 quotes in «noble quotes» category

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both?

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

A noble book! all men's book!

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.