Noble Quotes - Page 8

• Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

  Denise Juneau

  Teacher, Children, Hard Work

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• I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

  Hari Kunzru

  Writing, Good Day, Narcissistic

  "'I'm the bloke who got the big advance'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Moving

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spring, Sunday, Air

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

  G. H. Hardy

  Passion, Science, Boys

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Quality, Proof

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• The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.333

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• Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

  Erich Fromm

  Tyrants, Goal, Enemy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

  Tammy Bruce

  Power, Equality, Rights

  Tammy Bruce (2010). “The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds”, p.58, Crown

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• In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

  Greg Brown

  Dirty, Rivers, Smell

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• In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• Noble be man, helpful and good!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Luxury, Helpful

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

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• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Order, Mad

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• What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Heart, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

  Umberto Eco

  Soul, Needs, Spirited

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.129, Random House

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• Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

  Henry Royce

  Latin, Humble, Adversity

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• With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the son of Palestine, whose noble soul ascended to . . . in order to rest in Allah's Kingdom, together with the Prophets, the men of virtue, and the martyrs. The heroic martyrdom operation . . . who turned his body into bombs . . . the model of manhood and sacrifice for the sake of Allah and the homeland.

  Yasser Arafat

  Believe, Heart, Son

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• Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Believe, Years, Generations

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Stars, Regret, Wings

  "A Legend of Provence" l. 284 (1861)

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• Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!

  Rebecca Lim

  Drama, Nursing, Opportunity

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• For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

  Alice Cary

  Honest, Birth, Fortune

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Ears

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• A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Noble Man, Gentle

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• More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Cutting, Enemy

  Mark Twain (2011). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court—Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo: English-Spanish Parallel Text Edition Volume One”, p.220, Lulu.com

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