Noble Quotes - Page 3

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.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

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.

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

The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"