Noblest Quotes
298 quotes by 240 authors
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Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings…
— Kate Horsley
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Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then…
— Colleen Houck
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Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
— Euripides
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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
— Samuel Johnson
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Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.
— Mark Nepo
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Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential.…
— Nathaniel Branden
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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
— Mark Twain
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If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
— William Saroyan
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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses,…
— Robert Burns
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
— Socrates
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Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.
— Karl G. Maeser
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Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it…
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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