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A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers. -- William Shakespeare
Sweeter than any sungMy songs that found no tongue;Nobler than any factMy wish that failed of act.Others shall sing the song,Others shall right the wrong,-Finish what I begin,And all I fail of win. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Kindness nobler ever than revenge. -- William Shakespeare
Patience is nobler motion than any deed. -- C. A. Bartol
Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is higher and nobler to be kind. -- Mark Twain
Order and system are nobler things than power. -- John Ruskin
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. -- Khalil Gibran
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty -- John Ruskin
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. -- John Ruskin
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. -- Ruth McKenney
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship. -- Samuel Johnson
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. -- Ludwig von Mises
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. -- Nick Lampson
There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty. -- Len Smith
To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. -- Pindar
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound. -- Richard Crashaw
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. -- Amos Alonzo Stagg
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes. -- Alexander Pope
It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. -- Mark Twain
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? -- Milton Friedman
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. -- Ovid
What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being? -- Joseph Addison
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. -- John Godfrey Saxe
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. -- Alexander Pope
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. -- Mark Twain
It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. -- Zig Ziglar
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. -- Gerrit Smith
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all? -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. -- Mark Twain
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts. -- Nelson Rodrigues
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. -- Mark Twain
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble. -- Mark Twain
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods. -- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -- James Buckham Kennedy
Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. -- P. G. Wodehouse
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. -- William Wordsworth
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. -- William Wordsworth
Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! -- Epictetus
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. -- Kevin Patterson
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. -- Henry David Thoreau
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does." -- Confucius
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. -- James Gates Percival
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. -- Confucius
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part. -- William Shakespeare
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated. -- Leila Khaled
A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate. -- Henry David Thoreau
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path. -- Bernard Baruch
What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty? -- Virginia Woolf
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men - nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality. -- Sathya Sai Baba
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are. -- Maria Montessori
We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners. -- G.K. Chesterton
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. -- George Santayana
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon. -- David Brewster
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. -- George Orwell
Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun. -- Woody Allen
O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft. -- Abraham Coles
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. -- Francis W. Newman
Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others. -- Tamela Rich
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. -- Francis W. Newman
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. -- Helen Rowland
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. -- Alexander von Humboldt
One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali. -- Hudson Stuck
At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly. -- Darin Strauss
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief. -- George Eliot
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort. -- Mark Twain
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed. -- Henry Van Dyke
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? -- Wallace Shawn
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb. -- Saint Augustine
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? -- William Shakespeare
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. -- William Butler Yeats
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties. -- Henry David Thoreau
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark. -- John Dryden
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race. -- James Payn
Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions... -- Joshua Reynolds
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one. -- Jamaica Kincaid
I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke. -- John Howard
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself. -- Adolf Hitler
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. -- Henry David Thoreau
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made. -- Robert K. Greenleaf
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. -- Ayn Rand
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel. -- Khalil Gibran
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children! -- William Morris Hunt
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. -- Nikolai Gogol
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. -- Alfred Marshall
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God. -- William Dean Howells
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;It is the reflex of our earthly frame,That takes its meaning from the nobler part,And but translates the language of the heart. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life. -- Thomas Carlyle
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. -- William Wordsworth
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day. -- Stephen Charnock
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit. -- Mark Twain
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed. -- Michelangelo
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this. -- Abraham Kuyper
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler. -- Fulton J. Sheen

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