(142 quotes found)
“Every noble activity makes room for itself”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.”
Aristotle
“He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.”
John Fletcher
“Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble”
Yiddish Proverb
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
Thomas Carlyle
“No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.”
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
“Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.”
Albert Einstein
“To generous souls every task is noble.”
Euripides
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
Edmund Burke
“To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.”
Charles Kingsley
