Noble Quotes

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.