Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the… — Unknown Author
Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never… — Elizabeth Enright
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable. — Georges Rodenbach
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What words can express her [the white womanâ€™s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully… — Susan B. Anthony
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy… — Jack H. Goaslind
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and… — Edward Abbey
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of… — Kurt Vonnegut
The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. — Constantin Stanislavski
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because… — Karl Marx
To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. — Jimmy Carter
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. — Margaret Fuller
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. — Carlo Goldoni
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already… — Saul Bellow
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart. — Giovanni Boccaccio
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back… — Mahatma Gandhi

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