The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
Frederick Soddy
To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
Jimmy Carter
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man or woman. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu Teaching
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.
Kedar Joshi
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reed
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
Savitri Devi
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
Daniel Moynihan
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Francis Bacon
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it. And one of the main sources of reaction and opposition is radical Islam the perversion by a few of a noble faith into an ideology of terror and death.
George Walker Bush
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
W. R. Inge
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit
Sir Walter Scott
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille