Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?
Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
The very moment you begin to seek your Heavenly Father, in that moment, the hope of His light will begin to awaken, enliven, and ennoble your soul. The darkness may not dissipate all at once, but as surely as night always gives way to dawn, the light will come.
I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.
