There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono Copy Share Image
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead… — Zhou Yu Copy Share Image
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty. — George Sand Copy Share Image
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. — Anonymous Copy Share Image