#nobles

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#finance #helping-others #inspiration #noblesse-oblige #success

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#glory #love #most #noblest #spirit

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. ↗

— Boethius

#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ↗

— Confucius

#bitterest #easiest #experience #first #imitation

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#does #ennobles #happiness #makes #men

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#asked #babies #bad #father #god

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#mind #noblest #wit

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#noblest #pleasure #understanding

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗