Noble Quotes

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Work alone is noble.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

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

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.