Quotes About Noble

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

The people of great value are the people who have a noble inner man

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.