On my honor - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character.    From LearnThat.org.  [Ezra Taft Benson (1899-1994).]

Verb (used with object), : a personality ennobled by true generosity.    From Dictionary.com. 

Schally, may I express to you our gratitude for the honor you are doing all of us in ennobling this ceremony by your royal presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Guillemin - Banquet Speech] Reference

This, then, is what is known as the ennobling and civilizing influence of war through the ages!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture] Reference

And at that moment, with the explosion, all of a sudden the ennobling, that is, that routine moment now is captured for all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Crisis in the Middle East - October 16, 2000] Reference

But it is not the figure of any earthly personality, however noble and ennobling, which is the object of the Psalmist's contemplation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference

He wondered what Irene would think of this "ennobling" business in the drab days of disillusionment that must soon sweep down upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cow Puncher] Reference

There must be something ennobling in the blacksmith calling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Thy soul is adorned by the most ennobling qualities of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

The consciousness of liberty is an ennobling element in human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

There is the relation something very human, something very ennobling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

Mentally she should read literature of a lofty and ennobling character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference

A pure and saintly inspiration, an ennobling and yet subduing influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

We realize in its broadest sense the ennobling influence of universal education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

Without the ennobling power of our women we can never be a great and noble race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference

What has philosophy, creed or council to say to that high and ennobling conception?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

We want the girls to rival the boys in all that is good, and refined, and ennobling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The gloomy truth is that deficit-reduction deals in themselves are not ennobling exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whew!] Reference

True symbols point to ideas: some point to horrific ideas and some point to ennobling ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spiritual State: Harry Windsor and the Prisoners of Ignorance] Reference

But Egypt needed and deserved something better, more ennobling, than a tyrant's sterile peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cop on the Banks of the Nile] Reference

If you can, that sacred memory will be a purifying, ennobling influence for you all your life long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

In Tosca especially he has shown the ennobling influence of music over an otherwise repulsive theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The love of nature is ever ennobling; it perhaps contributed to form the character of the future hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851] Reference

It stifles the spirit of true Americanism and stupefies every ennobling trait of American citizenship.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

It is indeed a labor, but a labor peculiarly blest for its manly pursuits and ennobling mental exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference

And the remembrance of those who had preceded him, ennobling an ignominious death, gave Federico courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

If it lacks the high message it is still an inspiration, for beauty is always ennobling to the appreciative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

The once familiar surroundings and the ennobling object of her visit inspired her with strangely tender feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Let us rejoice in and cultivate this spirit; it is ennobling and will be both a gain and a blessing to our beloved country.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

In particular, there is no feeling so ennobling as reverence; but there would be no proper place for reverence if we were equal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

It was a miserable way to die, nothing to come out of it, no ennobling sacrifice demanding it to lift a man's name beyond his day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

Great names will begin by ennobling vile offices; but, by a terrible reaction, those offices will end by rendering great names vile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Buddhists see suffering (which, in this tradition, is not ennobling) as the problem and liberation from suffering (nirvana) as the goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [True or False: The Major Religions Are Essentially Alike] Reference

Washington's life is a soaring lesson in the vital, even ennobling nature of leadership - what it is, what it entails and what it requires.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington, CEO?] Reference

This is no cold and cheerless philosophy; it is an elevating and ennobling ideal which may console him in his afflictions and teach him how to live and how to die.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference