X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Noble" (956)

Page 2 of 40
Filter & Style
Image
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
Walt Whitman
Image
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
Edgar Allan Poe
Image
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Image
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.
Walter Inglis Anderson
Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
Ambrose Bierce
Image
Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A successful life can become a violent enterprise.
Wayne Muller
Image
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
George Will
Image
Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout But their name is on your waters Ye may not wash it out.
Lydia Sigourney
Image
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
Wendell Phillips
Image
For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
Alice Cary
Image
Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.
Ali-Shir Nava'i
Image
I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on.
Simon Rich
Image
For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Image
In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.
Wilferd Peterson
Image
Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.
Wilford Woodruff
Image
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.
Wilford Woodruff
Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
Alfred North Whitehead
Image
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Image
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Image
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
Will Carleton
Image
Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.
Alfred Kazin
Image
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.
Alfred de Vigny
Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Previous
Next