Noble Quotes - Page 5

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

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

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.