Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history… — Victor Hugo
To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a… — Plutarch
If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes… — Francis Beaumont
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our… — J. William Fulbright
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. — D. Elton Trueblood
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health,… — George Bernard Shaw
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. — William Shakespeare
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation. — Robert A. Heinlein
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy. — William Ralph Inge
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake… — Aristotle
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. — Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease. — Heraclitus
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. — Anatole France
Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve… — Dalai Lama
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life. — Lucy Stone
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to… — Sri Aurobindo
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has… — James Madison
In right and service to their noble country. — William Shakespeare
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips
Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is… — Michael Novak
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it… — Eric Hoffer
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Madame de Stael
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this… — Albert Einstein

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