Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
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.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Max Bialystock: You're an accountant! You're in a noble profession! The word "count" is part of your title!
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.
