Noblest Quotes

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.