Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Queen Elizabeth II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.

Charles Kingsley

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

ODORS ARE ALWAYS OF QUESTIONABLE PARENTAGE AND NEVER OF NOBLE BIRTH.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Aristotle

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Ben Jonson

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

A. P. Herbert

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Petrarch

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Albert Camus

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Clayton Christensen

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Daniel Burnham

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Daniel Burnham

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Dalton Trumbo

What's so noble about being dead?

Desiderius Erasmus

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Cat Deeley

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

Because, whatever noble persons do, others follow. Whatever standard they set up, the world follows.

Pat Oliphant

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Paul Weller

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Sebastiao Salgado

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

Sophocles

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Stanislaw Lem

Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!

Scott Westerfeld

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.