Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure… — Robert A. Heinlein
Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you? — Richelle Mead
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to… — Robert Hughes
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who… — William P. Young
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake… — Ayn Rand
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love. — Lauren Kate
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. — Colleen McCullough
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. — Confucius
...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious… — Dean Koontz
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. — Scott Westerfeld
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing… — Aristotle
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless — J.R.R. Tolkien
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose. — Seth Grahame-Smith
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The noble soul reveres itself — Friedrich Nietzsche
You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau
I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy… — Christopher Paolini
I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep,… — Diana Palmer

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