Top 100 Quotes About Noble
#1. But how shall I get ideas? 'Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!
Orison Swett Marden
#2. I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
Wallace Stevens
#3. The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies
#4. Just goes to show, everyone really does have a story to tell. And most people, at least in my experience, are a little more noble than they think they are.
R.J. Palacio
#5. I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had
and knowing I might never have it again
that scares me worse than anything.
Randall Wallace
#6. Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
Elie Wiesel
#7. I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#8. I spread my majestic wings. I had really done it! I was a noble falcon, lord of the sky. I launched myself off the sidewalk and flew straight into the fence.
Rick Riordan
#9. They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Kahlil Gibran
#10. But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
Marilyn Monroe
#11. The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#12. -"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid.
Lloyd Alexander
#13. Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
Henry George
#14. Aspirations; be careful with those, if noble they will emancipate you, if corrupt you will be condemned
Rohit Omar
#15. Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.
Eric Hoffer
#16. If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
Jack H. Goaslind
#17. Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#18. Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
#19. The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
Seneca The Younger
#20. This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Mark Crispin Miller
#22. The knight knew he was of good breeding and noble blood, that his reputation was sterling. He had no dalliances. He was a highly decorated Knight of the Round Table.
Julia Mills
#23. They are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an activity that's just a little bit more noble than the activity we engaged in a moment before.
Ken Wilber
#24. God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey.
Melanie Klein
#25. Miss, you are seventy-two percent noble and don't have a cent. Whether or not you marry the greatest lord in South America - who has an extraordinarily handsome mustache - is entirely up to you.
Voltaire
#26. Whelks are strange and comforting.
They have no notion of community life and they breed very quietly.
But they have a strong sense of personal dignity.
Even lying face down in a tray of vinegar there is something noble about a whelk.
Which cannot be said for everybody.
Jeanette Winterson
#27. This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:
Thomas Watson
#28. The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#29. quite as heavily upon his noble steed. His friends and the above-mentioned fraternity chuckled and winked behind his back, but although Mr. P. heard them chuckle and knew that they were winking, his belief
Various
#30. On Pt. K.L. Misra
Panditji lived a full life replete with achievements and honours. He was such a versatile and noble man that the like of him may not be born again. - Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate
Munindra Misra
#31. There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
William Wordsworth
#32. There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.
Matia Ben Ephraim
#33. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Philip Sidney
#34. Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#35. At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral
#36. The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
Plotinus
#37. The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
P. G. T. Beauregard
#38. The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
Joseph Campbell
#39. Know this: anyone who does anything worthy, anything noble, anything meaningful, will have critics.
Eric Greitens
#40. 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
#41. Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller
#42. There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.
Carlos Salinas
#43. One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.
Deirdre O'Kane
#44. All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.
Lin Yutang
#45. I know you'll be a good Queen, a strong, noble leader, and that's more than these people deserve," she said. "But don't give too much. You need to keep some of yourself for you. And listen to your heart.
Amanda Hocking
#46. If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#47. The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.
Charles Dickens
#48. O how many noble deeds of women are lost in obscurity!
Seneca.
#49. I should probably be noble and tell you I'll let you go if it's what you want, but I'm a spoiled, selfish brat. I'll follow you, beg you, bribe you to stay. Because you're the first one to make it to my island. I don't want to let you leave.
Heidi Cullinan
#50. Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.
Cennino Cennini
#51. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#52. I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Pierre Corneille
#53. And then I saw it - not below, where I had looked, but over my head, a vast and noble curve stretching away to either side, with white cloud flying between ourselves and it, a world all speckled over with blue and green like the egg of a wild bird.
Gene Wolfe
#54. King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is - as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he seems more like a stuffed owl than a real person.
Joan Wolf
#55. If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.
Frederick William Robertson
#56. Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Roberto Rossellini
#57. There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
Larry Niven
#58. One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
Gustav Heinemann
#59. He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t
William R. Trotter
#60. Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
Winston Churchill
#61. Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran
#62. He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
Samuel Rutherford
#63. The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
Joseph Joubert
#64. I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
Hari Kunzru
#65. In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
Leo Tolstoy
#66. As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.
Tim Irwin
#68. Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus
#69. It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
William Shakespeare
#70. I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.
Harrison Ford
#71. My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his desire to impress me.
Jody Hedlund
#72. Catallactics does not ask whether or not the consumers are right, noble, generous, wise, moral, patriotic, or church-going. It is concerned not with why they act, but only with how they act.
Ludwig Von Mises
#73. Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.
Georgette Heyer
#76. I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].
Jim Thorpe
#77. There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
Vera Farmiga
#78. Then, again, who does not see how empty, how foolish, is the fame of noble birth? Why, if the nobility is based on renown, the renown is another's! For, truly, nobility seems to be a sort of reputation coming from the merits of ancestors.
Anonymous
#79. The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
John Lancaster Spalding
#80. Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.
Richard Ney
#81. You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.
Max Lucado
#82. The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.
Ellen G. White
#83. For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
Susan B. Anthony
#84. This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.
Gautama Buddha
#85. The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Pope John XXIII
#86. You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
George W. Bush
#87. The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.
Glenn Greenwald
#88. Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.
Sun Ra
#89. Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one's Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time.
Marlena De Blasi
#90. It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well ... than to kill ten thousand.
Olive Schreiner
#91. Life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
Jerome K. Jerome
#92. Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?
Cosmo Knox
#93. Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge
#94. Shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in
Rudyard Kipling
#95. What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.
L. Tom Perry
#96. The fact is, I was given a heart. I was given this gift of life that few receive and I had to decide how I wanted to use it. Not how others deem noble.
So I finally stripped away the fear and anxiety, and suddenly life become crystal clear.
R.S. Grey
#97. At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Richard Paul Evans
#98. I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.
William Shakespeare
#99. I have learned that having a cause to fight for is a noble and rare thing to have. So be fearless and fight.
Abeer Allan
#100. I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.
George W. Bush
