Quotes About Noble

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

Honour always wins, it is inevitable.

Honor is the greatest poet.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Vietnam was a noble cause imperfectly pursued

I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.

Being in a group reveals who individuals are just as much, if not more, than being in a group alters who they are. In this way, groups can reflect some of the baser characteristics of the individuals within them as well as some of the more noble.

Youth is, I believe, contrary to all tradition, the time when Rational Thought dominates and allures. It is because they turned on the world the eager clear-eyed curiosity of a noble child that the Greeks are always young and their language essentially the language of youth.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

Toby placed his front paws on the track, looked up at Ian, and whined. "What in hell are you wearing, big man?" he asked, staring down at the dog. "It's his sweater." "That's a terrible thing to do to a noble beast," Ian muttered, grabbing the sweater by the hem and pulling it up over Toby's head. -Ian and Jessie