Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Welcome to these Noble Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Noble and Love.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
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.
- Charles Darwin
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Please sign-up for my free Daily Inspiration email. Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Thank you for visiting: Noble Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Noble and Love.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.