Noble Quotes - Page 10

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

The noble man is only God's image.

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.