noble act Quotes

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

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.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.

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

The noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Here lies Hincmar the thief. But his savage greed aside, he did one truly noble thing. He died.

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

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

I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?