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Quotes About Noble

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
~ Adam Weishaupt
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
~ Vicente Fox
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We had rarely seen our fathers in work boots before, toiling in the earth and wielding brand-new root clippers. They struggled with the fence, bent over like Marines hoisting the flag on Iwo Jima. It was the greatest show of common effort we could remember in our neighborhood, all those lawyers, doctors, and mortgage bankers locked arm in arm in the trench, with our mothers bringing out orange Kool-Aid, and for a moment our century was noble again.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to be sinful and wicked anymore. I would come and live here, and never do any more wrong, and lead a blameless, beautiful life, and have silver hair when I got old, and all that sort of thing.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Mr. Kapasi had never thought of his job in such complimentary terms. To him it was a thankless occupation. He found nothing noble in interpreting people's maladies
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.
~ Susan B. Anthony
When Trump started belittling him, Jeb reverted to Bush form. He couldn't understand how anyone could question his noble pursuit of public service. In the face of Trump's attacks, he looked hurt and stunned.
~ Franklin Foer
El hombre no está hecho solo de músculos y tendones, la mente es su parte más elevada y noble, la que lo vuelve semejante a los dioses.
~ Unknown
But in order to achieve that noble shade of yellow I achieved last summer I simply had to give myself quite a boost.
~ Unknown
noble winged pig.'" "Yes, the spirit of programming.
~ Vernor Vinge
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
~ Vicente Fox
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
~ John Ruskin
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
~ Stephen Fry
The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.
~ James Allen
May bodhichitta, precious and sublime, Arise where it has not yet come to be; And where it has arisen may it not decline, But grow and flourish ever more and more. The
~ Pema Chodron
Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.
~ Peter David
THERE COMES a time in the restoration of an old house when the desire to see it finished threatens all those noble aesthetic intentions to see it finished properly.
~ Peter Mayle
Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
~ David Foster Wallace
If concentrating on the Divine or the universal in the form of a rock aids in preparing the mind for meditation, such a rock is a great dharma, a noble truth.
~ David Frawley
life without heroic deed is no life at all.
~ David Gemmell