#noble

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #noble




To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.


Jimmy Carter


#everyday #human #human needs #individual #individual human

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.


Joseph Conrad


#begin #devoted #humane #intelligent #just

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


#brow #dead #departs #even #fame

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.


Ross Perot


#action #author #being #contemplation #good

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.


William Ramsay


#doors #exercise #mind #most #noblest

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.


Theodore Roosevelt


#ease #i #i wish #ignoble #life

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.


Egon Schiele


#beautiful #been #behind #birth #decay

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.


Muriel Spark


#days #decline #first #immortality #life

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


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#does #know #manner #never #noble

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#nature #noble #observes #often #only