Noblest Quotes
298 quotes by 240 authors
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks…
— Philip James Bailey
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
— William Bennett
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them…
— Annie Besant
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
— Louisa May Alcott
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
— Alexis Carrel
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Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity,…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
— James Madison
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
— Oswald Chambers
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Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a…
— Edwin S. Shneidman
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.…
— Robert Collyer
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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'
— Benjamin Franklin
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it…
— Andre Gide
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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
— Nido R Qubein
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