Noble Quote by William Ellery Channing

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

“A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.”

— Johann David Wyss

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

— Philip Sidney

“Be always available to noble pursuits... by deed, thought, emotion, prayer, presence, sharing... or whatever other manner... but always attempt to join the bandwagon…

— Dinesh Kumar

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour…

— Thomas Chalmers

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with…

— Washington Irving

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness

— Charles Dickens

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a…

— David Hume

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee