Noble Quotes - Page 22

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.