Noble Quotes

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?