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Tag Name "Noblest" (236)

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil
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Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
Henry George Bohn
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
Oscar Wilde
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If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
Henry Ward Beecher
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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
Jostein Gaarder
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A woman's noblest station is retreat.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Morris West
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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Robert Collyer
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
James O'Donnell Bennett
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
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I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.
Elie Wiesel
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There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
Octavius Winslow
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Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.
Helen Mirren
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Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.
Rainbow Rowell
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott
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The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.
Robert Charles Winthrop
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
Laurence J. Peter
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
John Gardner
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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Edmond Halley
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Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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