Noble Quotes - Page 35

• Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Way, Righteous, Seems

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

  Herman Melville

  Crafts, Melancholy, Touched

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.77, Velvet Element Books

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• A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, People, Liberty

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Answers, Honest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4036, Library of Alexandria

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• The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Letters from the Earth" (1940)

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• Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –

  David O. McKay

  Loyalty, Self, Expression

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• But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Brother, Honesty, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.299, e-artnow

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• I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Horse, Hate, Distance

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.

  James Allen

  Character, Thinking, Long

  James Allen (2010). “As You Think: Second Edition”, p.24, New World Library

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• A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

  James Allen

  Strong, Learning, Mean

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Treasure, Narnia

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Thee, Thyself

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• I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

  Billy Joel

  Believe, Fighting, Views

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• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Education

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.

  Burton Raffel

  Kings, Mean, Warrior

  Burton Raffel, Robert Payson Creed (1963). “Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction”

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• Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!

  Burton Raffel

  Strong, Kings, Fighting

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• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Writing, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.95, Ravenio Books

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• I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Thinking, Ignorant

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• I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Book, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

  Jennifer Fallon

  Men, Perfectly Good, Underestimate

  Jennifer Fallon (2008). “Warlord: Book Six of the Hythrun Chronicles”, p.62, Macmillan

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• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Gratitude, Morning

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• For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1590, Simon and Schuster

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• A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heroic, Type, Womanhood

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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