Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life… — Alan Lightman
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. — Starhawk
What's so noble about being dead? — Dalton Trumbo
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at… — C.S. Lewis
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry,… — Octavio Paz
I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble… — Victor Hugo
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of… — Horace Greeley
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the… — Ted Dekker
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a… — Daniel Handler
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. — Herman Melville
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will… — Abigail Adams
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage… — David O. McKay
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power… — Leo Tolstoy
I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance,… — Megan Whalen Turner
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the… — James Allen
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates… — James Allen
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. — C.S. Lewis
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome… — Marcus Aurelius

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