Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is… — Nicholas Sparks
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement -… — Sylvester Stallone
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. — Tacitus
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. — Tecumseh
Better not be at all than not be noble. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. — Henry David Thoreau
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. — Mark Twain
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the… — Swami Vivekananda
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and… — Adam Weishaupt
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. — William Weld
Being a musician is a noble profession. — Paul Weller
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. — Oscar Wilde
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in… — George Edward Woodberry
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination… — Lin Yutang
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of… — Mao Zedong
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not… — Philip Zimbardo
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't. — Evgeny Morozov
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement. — Christopher Hitchens
How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the… — Christopher Paolini
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion… — Daniel Handler
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able to say "yes" to what… — David Zindell

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