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Quotes About Noble

The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.
~ Max Heindel
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
~ James Bovard
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
~ Socrates
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 true birth.
~ Socrates
For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.
~ Sophocles
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
~ Sophocles
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
~ Sophocles
To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
~ St. Augustine
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
~ Starhawk
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
~ Stendhal
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
~ Gerrit Smith
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
~ John Ruskin
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
~ Annie Besant
A noble truth is a sacred creed.
~ Bob Dylan
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
~ Henry David Thoreau
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
~ Michel de Montaigne
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
~ Pema Chodron
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
~ Madame de Stael
Most traders divulge whether they are making or losing money by the way they speak or move. They are either overly easy or overly tense. With Meriwether you could never, ever, tell. He wore the same blank half-tense expression when he won as he did when he lost. He had, I think, a profound ability to control the two emotions that commonly destroy traders (fear and greed) and it made him as noble as a man who pursues his self-interest so fiercely can be.
~ Michael Lewis
I think, a profound ability to control the two emotions that commonly destroy traders (fear and greed) and it made him as noble as a man who pursues his self-interest so fiercely can be.
~ Michael Lewis
The hardest thing in life may be to learn to truly trust that there is something noble and generative in ourselves. This is a greater sense of the notion of believing in our self; to truly believe in oneself means to uncover the inner core of imagination and authenticity that can also be called the genius within us. When we connect to the inner resident of the soul, we also learn how we are woven to the Soul of the World.
~ Michael Meade
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~ Michael Morpurgo
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.' Ruskin
~ Michael Oakeshott