Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington 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
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of… — Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington Copy Share Image
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm… — Jenny Jay Copy Share Image
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden… — James Allen Copy Share Image
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
