Noble Quotes · Page 5

To generous souls every task is noble.

— Euripides

“people do noble things.”

— Johnny B. Truant

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

— Euripides

I think of the cold as a noble force.

— Wim Hof

Noble fathers have noble children.

— Euripides

“Being noble enough is all we can ask for in this world.”

— Lemony Snicket

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

— Paddy Chayefsky

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fear God is blissful.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

— Vladislav Tretiak

“It is the mark of a supreme soul not know how to inflict pain on others.”

— Amit Kalantri

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“They are never alone wthat are accompanied by noble thoughts”

— philipp sydney

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

— Walt Whitman

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

— Josephus

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of…

— Jack Kerouac

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

— Herbert Hoover

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will…

— James Mace

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

— Denise Levertov

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the…

— Himani Shivpuri

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful…

— John Lennon

A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will…

— Marvin J. Ashton

“He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least,…

— K.J. Bishop

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.…

— Honore de Balzac

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't…

— James Russell Lowell

Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should…

— Dalai Lama

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

[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of…

— Charles Darwin

I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's…

— John Muir

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage…

— John Ruskin

I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much…

— George Cayley

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other…

— Charles Darwin

There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and…

— Odell Shepard

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

— Christian D. Larson

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

— Charles Darwin

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.

— Alfred Kazin