Noble Quotes

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

To generous souls every task is noble.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.