Quotes About Noble

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

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

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic.

La civilización no tiene necesidad de nobleza ni heroísmo. Ambas cosas son sintomas de ineficacia política.

No, ogni uomo nobile e saggio ama la sua donna e ne ha cura come io con tutto il cuore amavo la mia, e non importava se era una schiava di guerra. (Achille, da Omero, Iliade)

Se accedere al senso più nobile delle cose era una faccenda di determinazione, allora accedere al senso delle cose diventava quasi un privilegio riservato alla borghesia. Perfetto.

Indifference towards fortune is the most beautiful beam of the sun which can light one noble sword.

if you observe the social structure of the people, you only see springs of the machine, but not also the noble hand which moves it.

For one can live in friendship With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine, And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks A noble heart and mind.

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.

I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

We can assess our practice by asking only whether Yoga practice is building our integrity as a human being and helping us live as an expression of our most noble virtues. Whether our practice strengthens our ability to be present with all that we experience is the only criteria we need for what we do or don't do on the mat.

Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could he somehow become courageous and noble? Could not knowing you had a history of cowardice allow you to suddenly become brave? Were bravery and altruism learned qualities or innate ones?

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.