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It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess — Bernard Kelvin Clive

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The noble and high born cannot endure grief. — Charlotte Bronte

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters. — Mark Shields

Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear. — Farshad Asl

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds. — Saint Augustine

Noble be man, helpful and good! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines. — Confucius

Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world. — Elizabeth Noble

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee

She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her. — Sylvain Reynard

Earlier today I was eating a nugget. — Angello Wellson-Noble

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood. — William Shakespeare

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble. — Larry Brilliant

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food. — C.S. Lewis

You're noble enough, Baudelaires. That's all we can ask for in this world. — Lemony Snicket

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway,

What I choose to believe does not change what is true. — Carrie Anne Noble

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own. — Ben Jonson

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height. — Edward Abbey

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths. — Dalai Lama

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears. — Michael Gruber

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds? — Alastair Reynolds

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble. — Delano Johnson

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator. — Joseph P. Bradley

No noble man ever hated good wine. — Francois Rabelais

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits. — Christoph Martin Wieland

-"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid. — Lloyd Alexander

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa — Lama Surya Das

My love's a noble madness. — John Dryden

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. — Frederick Lenz

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself. — John Wooden

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite. — Confucius

Liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble. — Barbara W. Tuchman

People, whatever religion or branch they belonged to, were noble - but only if they didn't let politics get in between and ruin things. — Sarah Salem

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. — Karl Blossfeldt

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet

It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion. — Mark Twain

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. — Robert Greene

The noble man is only God's image. — Ludwig Tieck

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. — William Shakespeare

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange

Sebastian had strong features, almost noble when he was out cold. It was when he was conscious that you had to be wary. — Lisa Kessler

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. — Delmore Schwartz

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. — C.S. Lewis

The invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; — Alexis De Tocqueville

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time. — Phyllis Bentley

God, being noble sucked ass. — Dana Marie Bell

There is nothing more pathetic than people hiding their
cowardice behind seemingly noble intentions. — Amish Tripathi

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. — J. William Fulbright

Not to win is guttering. — Mark Noble

True freedom is in striving through adversities to accomplish all noble things that need to be done so that we may be free from any blame in the end! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. — William Shakespeare

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions. — Andre Mikhailovich Solonitsyn

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man — George Washington

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys. — Victor Hugo

We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility. — Geoffrey Litwack

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue. — James Lee Burke

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? — Ada Cambridge

Noble discontent is the path to heaven. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

There can be no more noble a quest than a man seeking to rescue his beloved. — Liesel Schwarz

window to check the weather because I'd hung my best quilt — Carrie Anne Noble

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves. — Pema Chodron

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really. — Robin S. Sharma

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. — Sarah Cross

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. — Helen Keller

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. — John Lancaster Spalding

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. — Edward Dowden

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. — John Noble

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. — Robin Williams

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. — Edward Moore

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Huxley

It's ok to not be ok, but it's not ok to stay that way. — Perry Noble

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. — David Mallet

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea. — Napoleon Bonaparte

When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. — Ellen Swallow Richards

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. — Matthew Kelly

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created. — Baha'u'llah

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. — Joseph Addison

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. — Egerton Brydges

My goal on every job is to learn something new, because I get bored so easily, — Nina Kostroff Noble

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

Liars have no noble tongues and their words tasted bitter. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer. — Samuel Rutherford

Yeah..so this one time I got kicked out of Barnes and Noble for putting all their Bibles in the fiction section. — Corey

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press. — Larry Niven

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

If what I want is a little less big, less noble than what he wants... does that make me the loser? — Huntley Fitzpatrick

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat. — Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert