Nobility Quotes
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Nobility Quotes & Sayings
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The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.
— Derek R. Audette
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
— Thomas Paine
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
— Cesar Luis Menotti
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.
— Sharon Pollock
The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.
— Karen Blixen
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I am a Count, Not a Saint.
— Alexandre Dumas
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were bound together by the things they'd done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do
— Lorraine Heath
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
— John Lothrop Motley
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
— Steven James
I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
— Richie Sambora
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
— Kahlil Gibran
Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
— Henrik Ibsen
I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.
— Ricky Gervais
One finds nobility in the oddest places.
— Cassandra Clare
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
— Whitney Young
When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.
— Emanuel Ax
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
— Homer
Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.
— Josephine Winslow Johnson
The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
— Frank E. Peretti
Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
— Claudius Claudianus
Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.
— George Hammond
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
— Thomas Hardy
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
— Francis Bacon
There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty. One
— Howard Thurman
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There isn't anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
— Honore De Balzac
Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope
— Patrick Rothfuss
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
— Robert Burton
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.
— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes.
— Emil Cioran
The beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.
— George Bernard Shaw
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
— Nicholas Sparks
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.
— Roger Ebert
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
— Rebecca West
Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among
— Bill O'Reilly
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
— Marya Mannes
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
— George Edward Woodberry
Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
— Baruch Spinoza
True success lurks in the nobility of head & heart.
— Mallika Tripathi
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
— Bantu Holomisa
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.
— Sophocles
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
— William Hazlitt
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
— Hilaire Belloc
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
— Georges Bataille
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.
— Marcel Proust
It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children.
— Kurt Vonnegut
And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They
— Andrzej Sapkowski
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
— Michael Morpurgo
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
— Betty Greene
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless.
— Sarah J. Maas
If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.
— Perry DeAngelis
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really.
— Robin S. Sharma
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
— PZ Myers
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
— Douglas Adams
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
We succumb at the end and are resorbed by the cosmos, itself a great and dying corpse. It's a noble fate and should be faced with nobility.
— Geoffrey Litwack
True nobility is exempt from fear.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man or woman......It doesn't matter! One of strength......And nobility......Is always a prince.
— Be-Papas
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
— Alan Weisman
There is no nobility with bad manners.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
— Jay McInerney
This is war. And victory is the only nobility.
— Pierce Brown
What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.
— Susanna Clarke
for nobility is excellence of race.
— Aristotle.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. — Philip James Bailey
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. — Philip James Bailey
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
— Sophocles