Noble Quotes
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).
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Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
