To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude. — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. — Sally Field Copy Share Image
Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“You are doing all you can to stay human in an inhuman situation. Noble it may be, but it isn't going to… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession,… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life,… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“So exalted was the idea of hegemony over self that every gentleman fell short. But the ideal itself was pursued for many… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted.… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it. — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images. — Propertius Copy Share Image
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! — Euripides Copy Share Image
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control. We” — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
