Noble Quotes

1309 Noble quotes by 838 unique authors

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to… — Drew Gilpin Faust
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel from his faithful… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble. — Buzz Osborne
The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the… — Joseph P. Bradley
Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with… — Willis Polk
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession. — Queen Elizabeth II
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it… — John Mackey
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. — Mark Crispin Miller
He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. — John Fletcher
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who… — George Sand
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. — William Ellery Channing
Work alone is noble. — Thomas Carlyle
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. — Charles Reade
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Madame de Stael
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? — Ada Cambridge
There is a noble and a base side to every history. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of… — Pat Brown
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for… — Gabriela Mistral
What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect,… — Jack Kingston
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might… — Henry Cabot Lodge
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things… — Frederick Soddy
Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort… — Margaret Cavendish

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