Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Blaise Pascal

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

Alice Cary

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

Alexander Pope

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

Dalton Trumbo

What's so noble about being dead?

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.

Bill Vaughan

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

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.

John Mulaney

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

Khalil Gibran

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

Heinrich Heine

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Horace

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Jamaica Kincaid

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

Fulton J. Sheen

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.