Noble Quotes - Page 38

• Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

  Steve Lopez

  Night, Nurse, Sick

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• If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

  Aristotle

  Men, Soul, Good Man

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1098a,

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• The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Warrior, Acceptance

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Common, No Fear

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 61, 1998.

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• By which I get my wealth--
  And very gladly will I drink
  Your Honour's noble health.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wealth, Drink, Honour

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Through the Looking-Glass”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

  Andrew Weil

  Spiritual, Discipline, Long

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• Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

  John Ortberg

  Self, Challenges, Inspire

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• I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Adorable, Loving Friends

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Ambition, Men, Discipline

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• And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

  Robertson Davies

  Fear, Views, Soul

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I

  William Wallace

  Country, Mean, Men

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• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

  Delano Johnson

  Love Is, Serious, Magnificent

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• You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Goal, Culture

  "Chipotle Seeks New Model for Quality Fast Food" by John Bermansarah Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. June 16, 2009.

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• Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Regret, Fear, Fighting

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Walk with Jesus: A Journey to the Cross and Beyond”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Animal, Flames

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

  Henry George

  Dream, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Realization

  Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

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• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left it would have been to England.

  Xavi

  Cheating, Player, Games

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

  James Michael

  Dream, Weight, Youth

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• A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.

  Anuj

  Heart, Mind, Window

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• Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

  Clayton Christensen

  Management, Wells, Profession

  Clayton Christensen (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.196, Harvard Business Review Press

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• To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Profound

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

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• To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Half, Way, Spirit

  "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.

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• Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Men, Sea

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.95

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