Noble Quotes
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.
You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.
I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.
Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû'ah).
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.
Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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.
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.
