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"noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great." »Goldoni
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"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them." »Johann von Goethe
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"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
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble." »Helen Keller
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"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable." »Robert Cecil
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." »Sir Philip Sidney
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." »Fletcher
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"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown." »Homer
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." »Aesop
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"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it." »Kahlil Gibran
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"There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich." »Seneca
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"Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it." »George Lorimer
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." »Kahlil Gibran
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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced." »William Shakespeare
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"To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law." »Johann von Goethe
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"noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783
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"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!" »H. L. Mencken
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"I never yet found pride in a noble nature nor humility in an unworthy mind." »Feltham
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." »Aldous Huxley
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"To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true" »H.L. Mencken
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." »Edward Dowden
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"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean." »George Santayana
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"noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger." »John Bay
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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." »George Bernard Shaw
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