Noble Quotes - Page 16

• Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Soul, Desire

  Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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• The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.

  Polybius

  Country, Memories, Men

  Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”

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• The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

  Arlen Specter

  Numbers, Democracy, Weapons

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• It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

  Christopher Bailey

  Unique, Two, Different

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• Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mountain

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• Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

  Robert Genn

  Fall, Giving, Feelings

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• It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient, sallow, and that this contribution they must have commenced to make before they can hope to understand the spirit that informs all great works and inspires all noble living.

  Lawren Harris

  Unique, People, Giving

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• Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.

  John Muir

  Life, Running, Fun

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.720, Library of America

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• Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Children, Giving

  Luther Burbank, (2013). “The Training Of The Human Plant”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

  Harold B. Lee

  Opportunity, Youth Of Today, Our Generation

  Harold B. Lee (1973). “Youth & the church”

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• Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

  Eugene O'Neill

  War, Pride, Old Wounds

  Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage

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• The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

  Matthew Arnold

  Poetry, Simplicity, Serious Subjects

  On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862)

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• I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Differences

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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• Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Motivational, Book, Names

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• A noble truth is a sacred creed.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Sacred, Truth Is

  Song: Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum

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• It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Excuse You, Ideas, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Artist, Moon

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• There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Shining

  "On the Genealogy of Morality". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 1, Section 5, 1887.

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• While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creative, Different, Deeds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.472, Modern Library

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• Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Life, Remembrance, Joy

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

  Romain Gary

  Mother, Dream, Inspiration

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Evil, Dawn

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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• 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.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hero, Men, Action

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• If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Kings, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.111

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