Top 1200 Noble Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

What's so noble about being dead?

Better not be at all than not be noble.

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Ego is vital but not noble.

Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.

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

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Politics, I love. It's a noble profession.

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 truth is a sacred creed.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

In right and service to their noble country.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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 houskeepers neede no dores.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

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.

The noble soul reveres itself

Work alone is noble.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

Comedy is a noble art.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Boxing is a noble sport.

My love's a noble madness.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Food is a noble thing to trade.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

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

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

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

Never try to compel others to change; leave them free to change naturally and orderly because they want to; and they will want to when they find that your change was worthwhile. To inspire in others a desire to chance for the better is truly noble; but this you can do only by leaving them alone, and becoming more noble yourself.

Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

I think of the cold as a noble force.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.