NOBLE QUOTES

• There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
  ~ Homer ~
• Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
  ~ Sir Philip Sidney ~
• Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
  ~ Edward Dowden ~
• Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
  ~ Bertolt Brecht ~
• Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
  ~ Willa Cather ~
• Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
  ~ Delmore Schwartz ~
• It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
  ~ Homer ~
• I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• An honest man is the noblest work of God.
  ~ Alexander Pope ~
• America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.
  ~ Jennifer Granholm ~
• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
  ~ Lafcadio Hearn ~
• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
  ~ Roger Ebert ~
• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
  ~ Bono ~
• It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
  ~ Plutarch ~
• May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
  ~ Swami Vivekananda ~
• An honest God is the noblest work of man.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• An honest God is the noblest work of man.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
  ~ Vicente Fox ~
• Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
  ~ Andrew Weil ~
• Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
  ~ Joaquin Phoenix ~
• It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
  ~ Herodotus ~
• I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
  ~ Sylvester Stallone ~
• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~
• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
  ~ Napoleon Hill ~
• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
  ~ Napoleon Hill ~
• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
  ~ Napoleon Hill ~
• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
  ~ Napoleon Hill ~
• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
  ~ Napoleon Hill ~
• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
  ~ Edmund Burke ~
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
  ~ Martin Luther ~
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
  ~ Martin Luther ~
• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
  ~ Martin Luther ~
• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
  ~ Joe Biden ~
• Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
  ~ Helen Rowland ~
• There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
  ~ Thomas Frank ~
• There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.
  ~ Thomas Frank ~
• At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
  ~ Brian Eno ~
• At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
  ~ Brian Eno ~
• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
  ~ Blaise Pascal ~
• Work alone is noble.
  ~ Thomas Carlyle ~
• Every noble work is at first impossible.
  ~ Thomas Carlyle ~
• Work alone is noble.
  ~ Thomas Carlyle ~
• I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
  ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~
• Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
  ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
• Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
  ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
  ~ Aristotle ~
• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
  ~ Aristotle ~
• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
  ~ Aristotle ~
• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
  ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
  ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
  ~ George Bernard Shaw ~
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
  ~ Confucius ~
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
  ~ Confucius ~
• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
  ~ Helen Keller ~
• I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
  ~ Steve Jobs ~
• To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
  ~ Mark Twain ~
• Whoever thought of writing the first love poem, and whoever thought of praising Jehovah with a song; had a point on how to live a pure and noble life.
  ~ Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze ~