Top 40 Quotes About Noble Deeds
#1. It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
Plutarch
#2. If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
Pindar
#3. The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.
Khaleda Zia
#4. Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
#5. O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!
Seneca.
#6. History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
Alastair Reynolds
#7. While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Horace Greeley
#8. When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement.
Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
Albert Camus
#9. Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
Scott Westerfeld
#10. Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle.
#12. In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle.
#13. There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments ... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.
Kelly Keaton
#14. To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
Plutarch
#16. Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
Laozi
#17. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
#21. 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.
Francois Rabelais
#22. Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
Alexandre Dumas
#23. Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
#24. 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
#26. The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
Tacitus
#28. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis
#29. If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
Rita Mae Brown
#31. Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
Otto Von Bismarck
#32. Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.
Jonathan Grimwood
#33. While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
Homer
#35. Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.
Robin Jarvis
#36. Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
George William Curtis
#37. Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.
Dante Alighieri
#38. When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.
Elizabeth George
#40. Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.
James Lee Burke
