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Quotes About Noble

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
The high road is the only road I know.
~ Jim Harbaugh
The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.
~ Joseph P. Bradley
wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any nation under the sun.
~ Peter Marshall
Rome was ruled by a small elite of noble families who shamelessly manipulated the political system and jealously guarded the executive offices for themselves.
~ Philip Freeman
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
~ Philip James Bailey
High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
~ Philip Sidney
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.
~ Phillip Lopate
To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
~ Pierre Corneille
Clemency is the noblest trait Which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
~ Pierre Corneille
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.
~ John Mackey
America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises.
~ Jon Meacham
We have chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
~ Jonathan Swift
Never has been a LONG hortatory poem', Pound advised John Hargrave, the leader of the Green Shirts, a militant wing of Social Credit: 'Epic…is not incitement to IMMEDIATE act/ you tell the tale to direct the auditor toward admiration of certain nobilities, courage etc.' Or, putting it another way, this time to Basil Bunting as a fellow poet, 'The poet's job is to define and yet again define till the detail of surface is in accord with the root in justice.
~ A. David Moody
She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.
~ Aaron Starmer
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.
~ Abigail Adams
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
I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in learning the special language of a scholarly order, I was amassing a kind of force. This was the pure and noble side of the world, uncorrupted by secrets and trickery. How extraordinary that a word could serve as a shorthand for an elaborate tale of disease.
~ Abraham Verghese
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
~ Paul Conrad
Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
~ Plato
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