Noble Quotes

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Ralph Bunche

Beat, Hearts, Strongest

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
William O. Douglas

Life, Loyalty, Political

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
Roger Ebert

Movies, Action, Needs

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
Paul Tsongas

Government, Simple, Democracy

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
Vera Farmiga

Down, Acting, Service

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
Joaquin Phoenix

Society, Film, Whether

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

Good, Home, Her

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Nicholas Sparks

Love, Children, Between

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand

Far, Lord, Earth

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
John James Audubon

Around, Deepest, Troubles

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing

Through, Grow, Stage

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
James Bovard

Government, Election, Simply

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael

Power, Genius, Both

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Beauty, Women, Children

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

History, Spiritual, Long

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne

Animal, Grave, Pompous

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Elijah Wood

Men, True, Nothing

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
Fiona Shaw

Business, Live, Joy

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Alexander Smith

Nature, Best, Death

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Melissa Rosenberg

Character, Stress, Woman

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Camille Pissarro

Everything, Find, Soul

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
Michelle Bachelet

Beautiful, Matter, Epic

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Court, Assembly, Beggars

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
Joseph Pulitzer

Life, Minds, Progress

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

Dreams, Men, May

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Robert Dale Owen

God, Courage, Wisdom

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert

Purpose, Himself, Except

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
Don Cheadle

Men, Black, Play

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

Peace, Great, Long

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fulbright

Men, Another, Against

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