Noble famous quotes
07-10-2025
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
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.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.
-- Aeschines -
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.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
-- Albert Camus -
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
-- Albert Einstein -
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
-- Albertus Magnus -
Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.
-- Alex Bledsoe -
As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
-- Alexander the Great -
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;
-- Alexander the Great -
Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.
-- Alfred Kazin -
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
-- Alice Cary -
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
-- Andre Gide -
All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.
-- Aprilynne Pike -
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
-- Aristotle -
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
-- Aristotle -
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.
-- Aristotle -
Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.
-- Arnaud Desjardins -
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
-- Barbara Mertz -
The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
-- Blaise Pascal -
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
-- Bob Dylan -
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs
-- Bruce Sterling -
After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
-- Bruno Bauer -
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
-- C. S. Lewis -
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
-- Camille Pissarro -
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.]
-- Carlo Goldoni -
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
-- Carlo Goldoni -
There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.
-- Cat Deeley -
Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold
-- Charlene Costanzo -
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
-- Charles Kingsley -
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
-- Charles Kingsley -
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.
-- Charles Simmons -
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
-- Charles Simmons -
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.
-- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb -
What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.
-- Christian D. Larson -
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
-- Christian D. Larson -
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland -
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)
-- Christopher Paolini -
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,
-- Clayton Christensen -
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
-- Confucius -
The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.
-- Constantin Stanislavski -
It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
-- Criss Jami -
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
-- Daniel Burnham -
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
-- Daniel Burnham -
The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.
-- David Jeremiah -
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
-- David McCullough -
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
-- Dean Norris -
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.
-- Delano Johnson -
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
-- Delmore Schwartz -
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
-- Demosthenes -
The most noble title any child can have is Third.
-- Demosthenes -
my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
-- Denise Levertov -
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.
-- Edmund Burke -
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
-- Edward Dowden -
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
-- Edwin Arnold -
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
-- Edwin Arnold -
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
-- Egerton Brydges -
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
-- Egon Schiele -
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
-- Elias Lyman Magoon -
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.
-- Elizabeth Enright -
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
-- Ellen Swallow Richards -
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
-- Epicurus -
Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.
-- Erin Gruwell -
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body,
-- Fauja Singh -
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to … turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
-- Francis Beaumont -
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.
-- Frank Howard Clark -
A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.
-- Franz Hartmann -
If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.
-- Frederick William Robertson -
It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.
-- Friedrich Paneth -
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
-- Fulton J. Sheen
