Noble Quotes

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

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

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.

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 noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

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

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

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

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

What's so noble about being dead?

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

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.

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

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

From Day One, I've told [my troops] that killing is not wrong if it's for a purpose, if it's to keep your nation free or protect your buddy, one of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

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

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.