Noble Quotes - Page 37

• I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hero, Stories, Moments

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Love Among the Chickens: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.425, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Writing, Dedication

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• Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

  John Bunyan

  Men, World, Sin

  John Bunyan (2011). “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (Authentic Original Classic)”, p.33, Destiny Image Publishers

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• It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

  Sarah Dessen

  Way, Steps, Chance

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.214, Penguin

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• Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.

  Ibi Kaslik

  Love Is, Rewards, Trust Love

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• My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Horse, Adventure, Son

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• I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.

  Silas House

  Hands, Tree, Silence

  Silas House (2002). “A Parchment of Leaves: A Novel”, Algonquin Books

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• The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspire, Tasks, Made

  "Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Vol. 1 A-E" edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, (p. 303), 1967.

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• To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

  Mark Twain

  Trouble

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• Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Money, Queens

  Louisa May Alcott (1993). “Little Women”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Honesty, Believe

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Good God, Spartacus

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.326, Penguin

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• Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Views, People

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Vision, Dawn

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

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• What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Avant Garde, Culture

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.16, Vintage

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• Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Humble

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• While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, People, Evil

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• It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Kindness, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.781, Penguin

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• Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Actors, World, Shallow

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1724, Delphi Classics

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• Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

  Lauren Kate

  Powerful, Fighting, Good Enough

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.358, Delacorte Press

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• There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

  Colleen McCullough

  Love, Heart, Ambition

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• These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Powerful, Men, Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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  The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

  Confucius

  People, Forever, Littles

  Confucius (1998). “The Analects”, Counterpoint LLC

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• ...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

  Dean Koontz

  Confused, Destiny, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Deeds, Chaos, Wartime

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2009). “Leviathan”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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