Noble Quotes

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

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

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

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

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

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

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.

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

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

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

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

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.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

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 possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

A noble book! all men's book!