Nobler Quotes

161 Nobler quotes by 131 unique authors

God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns… — Charles Spurgeon
Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are… — Ezra Taft Benson
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two… — Benjamin Franklin
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other… — Robert South
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if… — Dean Koontz
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea,… — Amos Alonzo Stagg
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the… — Woody Allen
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. — Gerrit Smith
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. — Nick Lampson
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. — Henry David Thoreau
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of… — William Morris Hunt
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place… — Anna Julia Cooper

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