noble quotes

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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

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

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

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

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Work alone is noble.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.