Noble Quotes

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

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.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.