Noble Quotes

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni

Great, Accident, Actions

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade

Women, Great, Men

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
William Sanderson

Life, Book, Person

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
Lucy Stone

Life, True, Public

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
John Sterling

Life, Pain, Strong

In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
Pete McCloskey

Time, Men, Honesty

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
Jean Froissart

Work, Time, Past

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed.
William Wetmore Story

Work, Best, Silent

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
James Martineau

Good, Great, History

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

Work, Future, Children

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger

War, Art, School

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Paul Conrad

Art, Necessary, Peculiar

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

Find, Rich, Against

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
Lorenzo Snow

Love, Men, Show

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

Life, Meaning, Hopes

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.
Anna Gunn

Time, Good, Bad

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Mark Crispin Miller

Today, Few, Shopping

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden

Success, Failure, Sometimes

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

There is a noble and a base side to every history.
Thomas Wentworth

History, Side, Base

The noble man is only God's image.
Ludwig Tieck

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller

Human, Lies, Religions

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.
Orel Hershiser

Special, Matter, Playoffs

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Work, Time, Character

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