Noble Quotes

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. (Plutarch)
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. View quote
Aesop
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. View quote
Lin Yutang
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. View quote
William Shakespeare
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. View quote
Dante Alighieri
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. View quote
Camille Pissarro
hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. View quote
Ralph Bunche
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. View quote
Herbert Hoover
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! View quote
H. L. Mencken
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! (Denis Diderot)
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. View quote
Charles Darwin
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. View quote
Charles Darwin
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. View quote
James Madison
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Every noble work is at first impossible. quoted by Og Mandino. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. (Mohammed Omar)
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. View quote
Thomas Hughes
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. View quote
George Sand
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg