Top 1200 Noble Causes Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler, a metal that dissolves in an acid-one and the same effect can be produced by means of all these various causes. But in the animal body we recognise only one cause as the ultimate cause of all generation of force, and that is the reciprocal interaction exerted on one another by the constituents of the food and the oxygen of the air. The only known and ultimate cause of the vital activity in the animal as well as in the plant is a chemical process.

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

The noble man is only God's image.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

I burn with no causes.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

What's so noble about being dead?

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

To generous souls every task is noble.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale