A Quote by Sophocles

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

Sophocles

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Seneca the Younger

I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

I. L. Peretz

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

John Ruskin

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Seneca the Younger

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

William Ellery Channing

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Edmund Spenser

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

Wilhelm Stekel

Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

John Ruskin

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.