Noble Quotes - Page 9

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.

As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.