Noble Quotes

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

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

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

The noble man is only God's image.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

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

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

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.