Ennobling Quotes

41 Ennobling quotes by 37 unique authors

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building… — Van Jones
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag
The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a… — Jonathan Hull
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man. — Julius Sterling Morton
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high… — Calvin Coolidge
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' — Immanuel Kant
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he… — Viktor E. Frankl
The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast… — Daisaku Ikeda
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall… — Frank O'Hara
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of… — George Eliot
A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact… — Jeffrey R. Holland
In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at… — Henry Clay Trumbull
Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give… — Sheri L. Dew
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it… — Julius Sterling Morton
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. — Huston Smith

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