All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
Thomas Carlyle
To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Sir Walter Scott
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Plato
Politics ... regarded as the study and pursuit of the true, enduring good of a community, as the application of great and unchangeable principles to public affairs, is a noble sphere of thought and action; but politics, in its common sense, or considered as the invention of temporary shifts, as the playing of a subtle game, as the tactics of party for gaining power and the spoils of office, and for elevating one set of men above another, is a paltry and debasing concern.
WILLIAM E. CHANNING
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
It is the duty of learned ones to ensure that the tribe of noble people keeps on growing. This they can do by means of proper guidance and tutelage.
Atharva Veda
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Elijah Wood
We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands.
Henri Barbusse
I am the pillar of Islam! I am the Companion of the Prophet! I am the noble warrior, Khalid bin Al Waleed!
al-Walid, Khalid ibn