Nobler Quotes

Conquering kings their titles take / From the foes they captive make: / Jesus, by a nobler deed,/ From the thousands He hath freed.

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.

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.

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.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature`s softened, and more gentle grows.

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.

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.

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.

The nobler a man is, the harder for him to suspect baseness in others.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The signals of the century, Proclaims the things that are to be - The rise of woman to her place, The coming of a nobler race

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.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether `tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion