Ennobled Quotes

27 quotes by 25 authors

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them… — Annie Besant
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ambition is only vanity ennobled. — Jerome K. Jerome
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.… — Andrea Dworkin
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be… — Klas Pontus Arnoldson
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice… — Ronald Reagan
It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it. — Nelson Mandela
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. — Thomas Francis Meagher
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made… — Karl Marx
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he… — Thomas Sydenham
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for… — Michelangelo
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.… — Henry Fielding
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. — Carly Simon
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about lifeâ€”they have never felt its breath, its heartbeatâ€”however much they have seen… — Boris Pasternak
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed… — Charles Darwin

Who Wrote These Ennobled Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 27 Ennobled Quotes as follows: