The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal. — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. — William Wetmore Story Copy Share Image
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a… — William Sanderson Copy Share Image
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? — Laozi Copy Share Image
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember. — Kate Seredy Copy Share Image
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others. — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
