Nobler Quotes

161 Nobler quotes by 131 unique authors

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment… — Henry David Thoreau
What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it-… — Elsie de Wolfe
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at… — Nikolai Gogol
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. — Khalil Gibran
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of… — Alfred Marshall
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic… — Joshua L. Liebman
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. — Amos Alonzo Stagg
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and… — Abraham Kuyper
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for… — Mark Twain
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having… — Oswald Chambers
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see… — Robert K. Greenleaf
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience… — William Howard Taft
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help… — Walter E. Williams
Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man,… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . .… — Confucius
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are. — Maria Montessori
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. — Henry Ward Beecher
To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much… — Lewis Carroll

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