Noble Quotes - Page 6

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.