Noble Quotes - Page 22

• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

  Confucius

  Men, Evil, Mind

  Confucius, William Edward Soothill (1910). “The Analects”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, People, Storm

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• What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Character, Men

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.997, Graphic Arts Books

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• 'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Believe, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Wise, Believe, Sheep

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• 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

  Soul, Atheism, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.113, University of Georgia Press

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• Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Poetry, Inspire

  Matthew Arnold, Gillian Sutherland (1973). “Matthew Arnold on education”, Penguin Books

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• Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Football, Exercise, Fighting

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• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Desperate Measures, Lobbyists, Amendments

  "Steven Spielberg & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, LINCOLN". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 9, 2012.

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• There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Play, Human Nature, Behavior

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• The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Poverty, Advantage, Endure

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• Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dream, Believe

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• No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Strong, Night

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.77

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

  Sarah Palin

  President, Want, Ships

  "Exclusive: Sarah Palin on U.S. Economy, National Bus Tour". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, Powerful

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christ, Buyers

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”, p.265

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• As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

  David O. McKay

  Thinking, People, Radiation

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• Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

  Andy Weir

  Insane, Astronaut

  Andy Weir (2017). “The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Intelligent, Men, Doors

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Science, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.358, Princeton University Press

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• A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Rose, Flying

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• The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Future, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1175, Delphi Classics

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