Nobler Quotes

161 Nobler quotes by 131 unique authors

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our… — Jerome K. Jerome
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. — Ruth McKenney
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character,… — James Buckham Kennedy
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler… — Charles Bradlaugh
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt
We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's… — Robert Baden-Powell
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at… — Thomas Carlyle
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely… — George Santayana
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. — Kevin Patterson
The signals of the century, Proclaims the things that are to be - The rise of woman to her place, The coming of a nobler… — Unknown Author
It is noble to succeed, but it's nobler still to help the other person to succeed. — Vikrant Parsai
'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. — David Borenstein
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,… — William Shakespeare
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living… — Ross Perot
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from… — Henry David Thoreau

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