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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. -- Blaise Pascal
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. -- Aesop
Every noble work is at first impossible. -- Thomas Carlyle
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. -- Dodie Smith
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. -- Martin Luther
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -- Washington Irving
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. -- Aristotle
Noble spirits are heterodox. -- Kedar Joshi
Noble fathers have noble children. -- Euripides
Noble houskeepers neede no dores. -- George Herbert
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Noble be man, helpful and good! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble discontent is the path to heaven. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life. -- Gautama Buddha
Ah, my princess. Noble steed. How does the morning find you both? -- Eoin Colfer
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. -- Carlo Goldoni
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. -- Horace
We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths. -- Dalai Lama
Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. -- William Dunbar
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. -- Honore de Balzac
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. -- Tacitus
Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. -- James E. Faust
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. -- Barbara Mertz
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. -- Richard Paul Evans
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? -- Laozi
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts. -- Roberto Rossellini
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. -- Terry Pratchett
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. -- Zach Braff
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. -- Pierre Corneille
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No speech can stain what is noble by nature. -- Sophocles
Do noble things, not dream them all day long. -- Charles Kingsley
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. -- Gary Hamel
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. -- Philip Sidney
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. -- Ralph Bunche
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. -- George Weah
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. -- Khalil Gibran
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. -- Jean Racine
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. -- Mark Twain
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness -- Egon Schiele
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. -- Muriel Spark
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. -- Annie Besant
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. -- Wendell Phillips
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! -- H. L. Mencken
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. -- George Sand
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. -- Helen Keller
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -- Lin Yutang
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
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. -- Charles Darwin
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. -- Steve Jobs
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. -- Herodotus
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. -- Sylvester Stallone
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
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. -- Swami Vivekananda
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet. -- John Ridley
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. -- Bono
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. -- Tom Wolfe
The noble soul reveres itself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Solemn silence makes noble worship. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Comedy is a noble art. -- Margaret Cho
My love's a noble madness. -- John Dryden
Love so pure, love so noble! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Ego is vital but not noble. -- Kedar Joshi
A noble book! all men's book! -- Thomas Carlyle
What's so noble about being dead? -- Dalton Trumbo
The noble style immobilizes its subjects. -- Mason Cooley
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. -- Abraham Lincoln
Modesty is a noble expression of honesty -- Constance Chuks Friday
Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined. -- Susanna Centlivre
Being a musician is a noble profession. -- Paul Weller
Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In high vengeance there is noble scorn. -- George Eliot
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts -- William Shakespeare
The noble man is only God's image. -- Johann Ludwig Tieck
The noble must make humility his root. -- Laozi
To generous souls every task is noble. -- Euripides
Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. -- Andy Weir
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. -- Euripides
The noble man is only God's image. -- Johann Ludwig Tieck
A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. -- William Shakespeare
No noble man ever hated good wine. -- Francois Rabelais
A noble truth is a sacred creed. -- Bob Dylan
Every noble activity makes room for itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence. -- Pindar
Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference. -- Terry Rossio
Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble. -- Delano Johnson
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. -- Friedrich Schiller
In right and service to their noble country. -- William Shakespeare
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. -- Saint Augustine
I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation. -- Justin Adams
Tears are the noble language of the eye. -- Robert Herrick
I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus. -- Donald Miller
A noble deed is a step toward God. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
No noble thing can be done without risks. -- Michel de Montaigne
Love is divineLove is pure.Love is noble. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A noble deed is a step towards heaven. -- J. G. Holland
A sense of justice is a noble fancy. -- Esaias Tegner
The noble lord is the Rupert of debate. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more. -- John Dryden
Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all. -- Benito Mussolini
A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] -- Horace
He is noble who both feels and acts nobly. -- Heinrich Heine
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die. -- Daniel Burnham
Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. -- Aeschines
Now my belly is as noble as my heart. -- Gabriela Mistral

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