Top 1200 Noble Cause Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring 'cause the record label didn't take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company's not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.

The way to achieve a higher birthrate, which is a noble goal and I am glad conservatives are serious about addressing it, is to radically change the culture.

It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.

I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

I can't go to school, cause I don't have a gun. I ain't got a gun, cause I ain't got a job. I ain't got a job, cause I can't go to school.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

All first responders do noble work, and all of them deserve our respect and our appreciation.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.