Noblest Quotes

#1. I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

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

Oscar Wilde

#3. Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos-
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health;
But pleasantest is it to win what we love.

Aristotle.

#4. Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#5. Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.

Epictetus

#6. The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

William, Saroyan

#7. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

#8. To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

Christian Morgenstern

#9. The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#10. Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Laurence Sterne

#11. Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Steven Pressfield

#12. The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."
~Louis D. Brandeis

Louis D. Brandeis

#13. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

Melina Mercouri

#14. The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.

Russell M. Nelson

#15. 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.

Mercy Otis Warren

#16. All - all right," she said, looking dubiously at the chair. "I - um, I need to change, though."
"I'll just wait in the hall." He straightened his spine and walked from the room, deciding he was the noblest, most chivalrous, and possibly the most stupid man in all Britain.

Julia Quinn

#17. Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

Xi Jinping

#18. Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Epictetus

#19. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

Calvin Coolidge

#20. The noblest of the elements is water

Pindar

#21. The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated

Anne McCaffrey

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

William Ramsay

#23. Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Oswald Chambers

#24. We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.

Helene Cixous

#26. God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Mark Twain

#27. MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

Ambrose Bierce

#28. Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

Karl G. Maeser

#29. Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#30. Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#31. This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; [70] He only in a general honest thought And common good to all made one of them. His

William Shakespeare

#32. The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

Charles C. Ryrie

#33. The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

John Flavel

#34. Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have ... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

Edwin S. Shneidman

#35. Be kind. Be kind to others, be kind to animals, be kind to yourself. Smile at the mailman, pet your dog, buy yourself an ice cream cone. Spreading kindness in this world is the noblest thing a person can do.

Shenita Etwaroo

#36. It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

Thornton T. Munger

#37. The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it and did what he could in his clumsy way to keep his happy Children of the Garden from acquiring it.

Mark Twain

#38. Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George Eliot

#39. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Peter David

#40. Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty
he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Jane Porter

#41. Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

#42. A man's life is worth much more than any sacrifice, no matter how great. For the greatest, the most just, the noblest cause on earth is the right to live ...

Yasmina Khadra

#43. Acting selflessly in the interests of others is one of the noblest things you can do. If you act in a kind and considerate way, everyone around you will benefit.

Dharmachari Nagaraja

#44. We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#45. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

Elizabeth George

#46. The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

Plato

#47. The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the image of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that they have no posterity.

Francis Bacon

#48. You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you, he whispered.

Stephenie Meyer

#49. They the royal-hearted women are
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
For needy suffering lives in lowliest place,
Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,
The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

George Eliot

#50. Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Albrecht Durer

#51. To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

Louis J. Halle

#52. I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

Albert Einstein

#53. Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

#54. Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

Spencer Tracy

#55. The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Thomas Carlyle

#56. Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#57. Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

Henry George Bohn

#58. Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#59. The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#60. The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

Thomas Browne

#61. There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

Anthony Hope

#62. To write good history is the noblest work of man.

John Dickson Carr

#63. He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#64. Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Samuel Smiles

#65. In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

John Milton

#66. Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence.

Carl Sagan

#67. The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

Thomas Paine

#68. Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

#69. All dies! and not alone
The aspiring trees and men and grass;
The poets' forms of beauty pass,
And noblest deeds they are undone,
Even truth itself decays, and lo,
From truth's sad ashes pain and falsehood grow.

Herman Melville

#70. Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Ronald Reagan

#71. Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Harry Greb

#72. Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Madame De Stael

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

William Henry Harrison

#74. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

#75. The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

Washington Irving

#76. There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

Octavius Winslow

#77. Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.

Jonathan Grimwood

#78. As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

George Veditz

#79. The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#80. We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

Felix Adler

#81. Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

Ellen Key

#82. The heart, said to be man's noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most ignoble; the symbolism is not inappropriate, because the love which comes from the heart soon extends to the organ which it resembles.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#83. Every lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#84. The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Marcus Aurelius

#85. Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

Juvenal

#86. The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#87. Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Philip Sidney

#88. The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

Sathya Sai Baba

#89. Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Euripides

#90. 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.

Confucius

#91. It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures - but far and wide.

Daniel Coit Gilman

#92. Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

#93. Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.

Mark Nepo

#94. An honest man's the noblest work of God

Alexander Pope

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

James A. Baldwin

#96. Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#97. The noblest revenge is to forgive

Thomas Fuller

#98. The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Frederick The Great

#99. Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Richard Francis Burton

#100. The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

Edwin Percy Whipple