Noble Quotes - Page 19

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.