Noble Quotations | Page 4

Anything that helps enhance democracy to give average people a voice is a noble and good use of technology.

As daunting and dangerous as law enforcement is, it is the most noble and rewarding profession in the world. The sergeants being honored today are the finest of the finest, and make us all proud to have chosen such a great vocation.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

A year from now Barnes & Noble won't even consider us a direct competitor, ... What we're trying to do is invent the future of e-commerce.

This is not a noble cause. This is a nobility cause.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

This country was formed for the white not for the black man. And looking upon African slavery from the same stand-point, as held by those noble framers of our Constitution, I for one, have ever considered it, one of the greatest blessings that God ever bestowed upon a favored nation.

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service to America is not new and should never again be allowed to go unrecognized. We don't allow women in service as a social favor; we do not train women in the name of a noble social experiment. Today, women in uniform are part of the national security of the United States, and this isn't a modern nicety, it's a military necessity. . . . Our military wouldn't be what it is today without women.

There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'

The reproduction of the very shoe Terry wore during his Marathon of Hope will greatly enhance our fundraising efforts while reminding Canadians of his noble dream to end the suffering that cancer causes.

As Noble continues to expand its resort and lodging portfolio, it becomes increasingly important to further strengthen our management support team. Both Nelson and Susan have demonstrated strong skill sets that will greatly complement and enhance the success of our portfolio across the United States.

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

It's a cause that is worth fighting, it's a noble and historic cause, ... And it's one in which our troops understand the importance of the mission. While these personal sacrifices are tremendous, the consequences of not acting for freedom and for liberty are certainly far greater.

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.

It's a disparate mix--there are so many different styles of joint venture; there's huge pressure on the U.S. It's a real tricky job. It's a noble task to try and gather all those places under one roof, but Paul Donovan has got a lot of sleepless nights ahead of him.

It's an important document, the charter, ... Hopefully the people running are doing this for noble reasons, like keeping Dearborn a great place, and not for their own agendas.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

The Noble Gibbons acquisition fits perfectly with our strategy of establishing a leading position in the world's top business capitals. Moscow continues to attract significant investment capital as its economy and real estate market matures.

noble mission to free the Iraqi people from an evil tyrant.

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.

Noble has made a billion dollars in profits since 2000, but it doesn't pay its fair share in taxes. Taxpayers are being gouged at both ends of this deal. Noble is getting rich off high energy prices, while the Department of Energy is giving away taxpayers' hard-earned dollars in the form of an unnecessary grant.

Noble has compiled a strong and successful track record of developing prominent lodging and related urban, resort and mixed-use developments, and currently has more than $600 million in projects under design and development with more on the way. Mark, John, Kevin and their team of dedicated and talented project directors will play key roles in helping us achieve our expanded development growth plans. This team is charged with creating value in resort, mixed-use and urban construction and re-development for Noble's own investment account, as well as for strategic investment partners.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for.

It's interesting that by taking these people, they're doing the opposite of what they set out to do. They're bringing attention to how noble and necessary their work is in Iraq.

No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be, ... it's a crapshoot.

I want Omega Man to be the equivalent of any Caucasian superhero, like a Superman, Batman, a noble righteous character, ... That's what we're trying to do with Omega Man -- give you a symbol that is African-American but is 100 percent positive.

I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son? He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him what that noble cause is.

They want to provide low-cost wireless services for their citizens?a noble act, but one which is going to cost taxpayers without giving them the right to vote on that kind of deployment, ... The cities are not prepared to run this kind of business. They don't know what customer service in networking is.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest

In an added noble gesture, players from both teams have decided to donate their match fees for Day One (first match) to this worthy cause.

I must confess that since the first time I heard myself referred to as a whistle-blower, I cringed, and I am still uneasy with that term. It sounds demeaning. Demeaning for so noble a cause.

If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings of friendship and love. Patience will make the banquet of life ever so much more resplendent.

In terms of public relations, it was a major snafu. I think it got a lot of negative reception in the market. Barnes & Noble look like someone who came to the party late and then started throwing their drinks at people.

If the method is noble - to liberate our land, to liberate our people from the Israeli deals, to reconstruct what is destroyed by Israel's long-standing occupation - at that time we can discuss.

Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.

Because, whatever noble persons do, others follow. Whatever standard they set up, the world follows.

HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

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

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

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.

Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

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

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.

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.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

I am as free as nature first made man, / Ere the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

How many of the gardens and fountains have they left! / And cornfields and noble places! / And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; / Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people.

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

Go Red For Women is grateful that so many celebrities are lending their time to advance our important women's health mission. We are truly honored that so many notable women contributing their time to support such a noble cause.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

Ginny, listen . . . I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.