'On my honor' what an ennobling phrase Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scouts Oath.
Quotes about ennobling (13 Quotes)
All (zoos) actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Poor workers First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living That kind of work does us no honor all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work Yet I'm alive I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
Freedom is humankind's greatest, most ennobling idea, and its surest antidote to terror and tyranny.
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our o
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
I say to all Americans, Republican, Democrat or independent, if you believe America deserves leaders with a purpose more ennobling than expediency and opportunism, then vote for Governor Bush,
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.