Noble Quotes

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

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

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

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

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

The noble man is only God's image.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.