Quotes About Noble

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wailOr knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair,And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

However, "with the right intentions," she has said, "misyar can serve the noble purpose of helping divorced and widowed women financially."58 Zeinab Shahine, a professor of sociology at Egypt's Ain Shams University, agrees. According to Al-Ahram Weekly, there are certain conditions, Shahine believes, when

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

Successful leaders need more than good intentions; they need to transform hopes and plans into results. Noble failure may be poetic but it is also unsatisfying.

I have always been looking for the noble qualities in human beings, and I have found them. There are great souls all along the highway of life, and there are great qualities even in the people who seem common and weak to us ordinarily.

But in Joseph and Daniel, in Moses and Elijah, and many others, we have noble examples of the results of the true plan of living. Like faithfulness today will produce like results. To us it is written, "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." 1 Peter 2:9.—

hay necesidad de dudar ni de temer que la obra no tenga éxito. Dios encabeza la obra y él pondrá en orden todas las cosas. Si hay que realizar ajustes en la plana directiva de la obra, Dios se ocupará de eso y enderezará todo lo que esté torcido. Tengamos fe en que Dios conducirá con seguridad hasta el puerto el noble barco que lleva al pueblo de Dios.—2MS 449 (1892).

La formación de un carácter noble es la obra de toda una vida, y debe ser el resultado de un aplicado y perseverante esfuerzo. Dios da las oportunidades; el éxito depende del uso que se haga de ellas.

I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

O espetáculo do homem - que vomitivo! O amor - um encontro de duas salivas... Todos os sentimentos extraem seu absoluto da miséria das glândulas. Não há nobreza senão na negação da existência, em um sorriso que domina paisagens aniquiladas.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Disliking humanity in general, she was one of those excessively tender-hearted people who are greatly moved by the troubles of complete strangers, in which she sometimes imagined herself playing a noble part.

I always feel that one ought to give men the opportunity for self-sacrifice; their natures are so much less noble than ours.

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

But Billy had done good deeds all the time. So had John Wayne Gacy, and dozens of others. It didn't matter. It was all part of the disguise. Jazz realized that he couldn't trust even his noblest impulses. They might not be genuine. They might just be camouflage.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

Russell Westbrook, giving $1 million to UCLA, it's noble. It's recognizable. It's something that's going to create a legacy for his name for years to come. It's philanthropic work.

Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.