Noble Quotes

You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

love as a passion - it is our European specialty - must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way.

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people's lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

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

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head - for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.