Noble Quotes
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.
Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
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.
You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.
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.
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and just as ignoble as anybody else.
You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.
Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'