Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.
Edward Moore

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich Schiller

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
William H. Seward

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
Joshua Chamberlain

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley

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

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
Mark Shields

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
William Weld

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
John Fletcher