Noble Quotes
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.
... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
