Top 36 Noble Actions Quotes
#1. A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange ... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.
Aristotle.
#2. Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni
#3. Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Aristotle.
#4. The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
Aristotle.
#5. Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.
George Washington
#6. Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
Victor Hugo
#7. Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
Charles Simmons
#9. I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.
Swami Vivekananda
#10. An idea has just come to me from nowhere, to wit: Might not the ancient and nearly universal belief that sperm could be metabolized into noble actions have been the inspiration for Einsten's very similar formula: 'E equals MC squared'?
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle.
#12. When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
Tony Campolo
#13. A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
Plutarch
#14. Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
Jerry Buss
#16. I let myself exist mainly through my children ... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#17. The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.
Tristen Gaspadarek
#18. Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.
Aeschines
#19. The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
Harold Wilson
#20. The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.
Jean De La Bruyere
#21. Very little of what he learned of people's actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.
David Anthony Durham
#22. Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.
John Wooden
#23. The noble minded act before speak, then they speak according to their actions.
Confucius
#24. We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.
Kathryn Lasky
#25. Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.
Kedar Joshi
#26. Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
The noble mind's distinguishing perfection
That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her
And imitates her actions where she is not:
It is not to be sported with.
Joseph Addison
#27. Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.
Linda Grant
#28. The library knows its own mind...When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.
Laini Taylor
#29. It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.
Jocelyn Murray
#30. We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.
Pema Chodron
#31. To preserve openness of heart and calmness of mind, nurture these attitudes:
Kindness to those who are happy
Compassion for those who are less fortunate
Honor for those who embody noble qualities
Equanimity to those whose actions oppose your values
Nischala Joy Devi
#32. Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
#33. He looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#34. 'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
John Fletcher
#35. Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.
Frank Harris
#36. But however imperfect, even repugnant, were particular policies, particular actions, there remained the purity of the ideal, represented in the theories of Karl Marx and the noble visions of many lesser thinkers and writers.
Howard Zinn
