Ennobles Quotes
25 quotes by 20 authors
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
— B. C. Forbes
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The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and it makes other…
— Walter Russell
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and…
— Angelo Pellegrini
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Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every…
— George Washington
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and…
— Percy Dearmer
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
— Albert Pike
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the…
— Petrarch
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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the…
— Edith Sitwell
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
— Oscar Wilde
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There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
— Walter Camp
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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
— Boethius
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Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring…
— Jack Kornfield
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True kindness ennobles the giver
— Jocelyn Murray
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
— B. C. Forbes
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At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or…
— J. Michael Straczynski
Who Wrote These Ennobles Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 25 Ennobles Quotes as follows: