Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato Copy Share Image
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs.… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge -… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom… — Jennifer Youngs Copy Share Image
“{ Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } On… — Owen Miller Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts. — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
