A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to...

A gentleman is one who doesn’t and can’t forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Robert Ingersoll’s character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be… none sweeter or nobler had ever blessed the world. The example of his life was of...

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero – or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are...

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes,...

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for...

Nobles with competent fathers perhaps. I spent my formative years at my aunt’s at Huffington Manor. She held a daily salon, where a dozen noble ladies came to discuss all manner of philosophical topics, like...

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever becomplete without an honourable and detailed reference to PunditKanhaiya Lal Misra and the multifaceted and many splendoured trailthat he has left behind not...

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

You have to be doing things that matter – responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn. His sword flashed like the brightest star. He led our people well. Yet...

Modesty is a noble expression of honesty

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can’t imagine it being true at all.

Integrity is the most important accessory you’ll ever have, it will never go out of fashion, get old, or fade. It’s the greatest investment you’ll ever make, and a noble fight you’ll spend your lifetime...

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy.And what is the truth, Stark? It’s all...

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

In a brave and noble way, I want to sacrifice my life one day so that two of my clones can live.

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling… She has been placed here to help to enrich, to...

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Greed is mistaken nobility. Instead of robbing all the pain and hardship from people’s lives and rescuing them from danger, greed robs provisions from providers.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was...

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the “gai saber,” to whom...

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common...

Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the...

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

Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right –especially when one is right.

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and...

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I’m stuck with this idea that there’s something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in...

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw...

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever...

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...