The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobility has to start somewhere. It might… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Organ Donation is a cause I feel strongly about. It's disturbing to see a noble cause like this still being clouded by… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
My rage is gone, And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up. Help, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
