Noble Quotes · Page 7

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

— Pythagoras

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

— Tecumseh

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

— Joshua Chamberlain

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

— Keanu Reeves

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

— William Shakespeare

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

— Pope Francis

I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact…

— Pete Visclosky

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

— Henry David Thoreau

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

— Friedrich Paneth

There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.

— John Cho

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

— Anonymous

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from…

— Julian Assange

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

— Jean Racine

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and…

— Fisher Ames

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs…

— Max Lucado

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and…

— Augustin Thierry

Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man…

— Francois Rabelais

Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, ..…

— Alain Juppe

“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit…

— Munindra Misra

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone…

— Neil Gaiman

“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur…

— François Rabelais

You are so to put forth the power that God has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give,…

— Thomas Guthrie

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves…

— Joshua Chamberlain

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything…

— J.R. Miller

When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have…

— Roger Ebert

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of…

— N.D. Wilson

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can…

— Eric Hoffer

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

— Anatole France

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

— Delphine de Girardin

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

— James Lee Burke

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

— Leonardo da Vinci

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

— Saint Augustine

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

— Charles Baudelaire