Noble Quotes

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

Great, Long, Small

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln

Give, Big, Offense

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain

Good, Others, Show

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Khalil Gibran

Beautiful, End, Human

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Work, God, Moving

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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Gratitude, Sign, Souls

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Live, May

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Life, True, Friends

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul, Essence, Egoism

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

Death, True, Away

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Yourself, Friend

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther

Music, God, Art

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Villages, Instead

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

Getting, Desire, Beginning

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius

Mean, Ambition, Idea

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

Smart, Sense, View

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth, Mind, Nothing

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Knows, Hold

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
Swami Vivekananda

Strength, Father, May

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Appreciate, Gain, Torn

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

Beautiful, Cannot, Fact

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Impossible

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken

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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

Deeds, Concealed, Esteemed

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley

Power, Political, Gentlemen

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great, Angry, Nothing

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rich, Poor, Manner

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, Sure, Born

Work alone is noble.
Thomas Carlyle

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

Seems, However, Qualities

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