Noble Quotes

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

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

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

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.

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

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

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

Better not be at all than not be noble.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

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.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

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

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

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.

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

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

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.