Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies… — Unknown Author
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. — Blaise Pascal
Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. — Steven Pinker
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually… — Francois Rabelais
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine
Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out… — Josh Radnor
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime. — Keanu Reeves
I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was… — John C. Reilly
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. — John Ruskin
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. — John Ruskin
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. — John Ruskin
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor. — Friedrich Schiller
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay.… — Egon Schiele
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. — Olive Schreiner
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. — Delmore Schwartz
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… — Walter Scott
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. — William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in… — William Shakespeare
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can… — George Bernard Shaw
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. — Dodie Smith
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. — Thomas Sowell

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