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- Alex Noble: Australian athlete and motivational speaker
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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
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Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962) -
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
The life of reason (1906) -
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
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