Noble Quotes

Noble Quote of the day

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

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

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

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

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

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.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.