(142 quotes found)
“All noble human endeavors can and will be subtly corrupted until they are at cross purposes to their original, fundamental principals. The only hope for the good of all is that the masses of the beleaguered accept the need for change and stand up to fight for it.”
P. A. Monson
“Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.”
David Thomas
“That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives”
“About all we were soliciting was 'You're welcomes,' ... Nobody go [to Barnes & Noble]. Go to amazon.com or something like that.”
Jay Feely
“A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
Aristotle
“They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.”
“My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.”
George Weah
“together we will work towards achieving this noble mission with a strong, reformed and revitalized United Nations at the centre.”
Yahya Jammeh
“Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maid servants, even chimney sweeps and old clothes women dabbled in tulips.”
Charles Mackay
