Noble Quotes

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

Humans can be noble. The question is: Will we put forth what is necessary?

The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.