#noble

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#action #author #being #contemplation #good

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. ↗

— Jean Racine

#felt #heart #malice #never #noble

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#i #noble #sorry #sublime #very

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#noble #rare #things

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#almost #belong #beyond #dazzling #feeling

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#act #along #anyone #aspire #between

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#become #creation #extinct #far #god

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. ↗

— Tacitus

#desire #enterprise #every #great #noble

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#asked #babies #bad #father #god