Noble Quotes - Page 7

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.