Live Nobly Quotes

#1. It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Seneca The Younger

#2. In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Sean O Faolain

#3. The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that ... we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

Phillips Brooks

#4. The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.

John Updike

#5. Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Seneca.

#6. Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

George Weigel

#7. Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

Claude McKay

#8. Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

#9. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Man Ray

#10. The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

Wilhelm Stekel

#11. But the summer had been a very happy one, too
a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

Edward Everett

#13. I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

Lena Headey

#14. Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?"
"I'd much rather live quietly for one.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sophocles

#16. True and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

John Donne

#17. For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Edmund Spenser

#18. We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.

Epicurus

#19. We're about one hundred times richer than the poorest billion people in the world, and we can do several hundred times more to help them than we can to help others in the rich countries we live in.

William MacAskill

#20. The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Seneca The Younger

#21. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

J.D. Salinger

#22. The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the essence of our human form and changes us from within. He fills us with joy, love and peace. He subdues our passions and transforms our very being into the likeness of Christ.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#23. Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

Sophocles

#24. I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Daniela Ruah

#25. This layers, like some kind of transparent sponge kind of thing, stands there between Eri Asai and me, and the words that come out of my mouth have to pass through it, and when that happens, the sponge sucks almost all the nutrients right out of them.

Haruki Murakami