Top 1200 Noble Man Quotes & Sayings

No noble man ever hated good wine.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

The noble man is only God's image.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.

I agree that it's important to be of a virtuous nature, but I would also contend that if you had to choose between giving a man a noble disposition or teaching him to think clearly, you'd do better to teach him to think clearly. Too many problems in this world are caused by men with noble dispositions and clouded minds.

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

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.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

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

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

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

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

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

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

I'll put everything I have in my capacity at the service of the noble cause and noble values of the U.N. and the U.N. Charter.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

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.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.