Quotes About Noble

El muchacho le explicó, como pronunciando un sermón, que el mundo de los hombres era vil y estaba lleno de mentiras. En él, solo el arte conducía a la vida verdadera y eterna, y él mismo era grande porque sabía lo que se encontraba más allá de las puertas del arte. La muchacha no podía dudar de la nobleza de sus palabras.

It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.

From there, to the South-West, I saw the Ngong Hills. The noble wave of the mountain rose above the surrounding flat land, all air-blue. But it was so far away that the four peaks looked trifling, hardly distinguishable, and different from the way they looked from the farm. The outline of the mountain was slowly smoothed and levelled out by the hand of distance.

Stop that! What were you doing, perched on the window ledge like a big chicken? Despite his aches and irritations, he couldn't help but grin. I prefer to think of myself as a more noble bird, like a hawk. I'm sure you do. But you flew like a chicken than any hawk I've seen.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

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.

Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.