Nobler Quotes

161 quotes by 131 authors

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the… — John Dryden
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build… — Unknown Author
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly… — Isaac Watts
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in… — Isaac Asimov
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality. — Sathya Sai Baba
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought… — Seneca the Younger
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation… — Laurence Overmire
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common… — Thomas Sowell
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than… — Michelangelo
At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care â€” if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option… — Gore Vidal
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character… — Henry Ward Beecher
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is… — William George Jordan
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and… — Tertullian
I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated. — Leila Khaled
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the… — Khalil Gibran
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these… — Epictetus
A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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