Noble Quotes - Page 25

• True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Lions, Nevertheless

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• We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Men, Different

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• Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Fashion, Art, Fields

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• Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

  Aga Khan III

  Mean, Destiny, Calling

  Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”

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• Thanks to men
  Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mind, Thankfulness

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “King John”, p.498

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• Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
  Still to remember wrongs?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Noble Man

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1786). “Coriolanus”, p.139

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

  Terence McKenna

  Fighting, Intelligent, Icons

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people, and the power-oriented people are the ones that cause all the world's trouble.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People, World, Causes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.

  Rebecca Hall

  Dream, Thinking, Forever

  "The Roles of Rebecca Hall". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 13, 2015.

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• It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Country, Ocean, Europe

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• Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

  Stephen King

  Tombstone, Years, Space

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

  Michael Light

  Sublime, Idyllic, Kind

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. So as you become aware of yourself as a soul as well as a personality, the new understanding of power becomes aligning your personality with your soul, with the highest, most noble, most healthy part of yourself that you can imagine or reach for. The intentions of your soul are harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Healthy, Soul

  Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Example, Spirit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Gratitude, Peace

  "A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, 1888.

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• No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Effort, Coming Out

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• My heart and my love is in the country because something feels pure and noble and good there, but at the same time, obedience draws me to cities, which are full of cultures that are interesting and fun. I always swore I hated New York. Since having this revelation that cities are where people are, where the need is, I'm growing to love New York.

  Josh Garrels

  Country, New York, Fun

  Interview with Charles Carman, www.curatormagazine.com. June 16, 2014.

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• A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Weed, Wicked

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.137, Advaita Ashrama

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• India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

  Narendra Modi

  Ideas, Empowerment, Sides

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• Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Rights, Noble Man

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

  Larry Niven

  Political, Politics, Causes

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• All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

  William Ellery Channing

  Wise, Enthusiasm, Quiet

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(420 p.)”, p.60

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• Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.

  John Adams

  Religious, Men, Liberty

  "The Works of John Adams, Volume 3: Autobiography, Diary, Notes of a Debate in the Senate, Essays". Book edited by Charles Francis Adams, 1851.

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