Noble Quotes
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The noble must make humility his root.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Albert Einstein
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Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
George Washington
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There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
Paul Gauguin
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
Julie Kagawa
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
Aristotle
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
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I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.
H. L. Mencken
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The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
Pythagoras
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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.
Aristotle
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It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
Sophocles
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He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
Egerton Brydges
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
Heraclitus
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The Egyptian Army is a great patriotic army, The Egyptian Army is a very noble and tough army, and it's toughness comes from it's nobility.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
Courtney Milan
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Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
John Milton
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Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Christian D. Larson
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There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.
Fauja Singh
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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
John Milton
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A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
Katharine Tynan
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.
Aristotle