Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are… — Thomas Sprat
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. — Philip Guedalla
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have… — Kate Horsley
Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy. — Kathleen McGowan
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. — James Martineau
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. — John Sterling
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of… — Thomas Cahill
Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy. — Arnaud Desjardins
If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you… — Robert Bringhurst
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. — Will Carleton
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands… — J.R. Miller
Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah). — Unknown Author
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he… — Helen Rowland
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy. — Jeremiah Burroughs
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. — George William Curtis
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen… — David Livingstone
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die. — Daniel Burnham
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you… — Nhat Hanh
A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their… — John Eudes
The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage,… — Peter A. Levine
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to… — John Milton
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them… — John Milton

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