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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

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. — Jane Porter

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

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is - as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility - dukes and such. — Mark Twain

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

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be. — Portia De Rossi

Sorry, I was awash in the nobility of sacrifice. What were you saying? — John Green

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. — Gary Zukav

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. — William Wordsworth

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana

They were bound together by the things they'd done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do — Lorraine Heath

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

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man's goal is imitation, not redemption. — Billy Graham

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

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. — William Shakespeare

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. — Claudius Claudianus

There's no nobility in poverty. — Jordan Belfort

Nobility is not only in forgiveness. — Dejan Stojanovic

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. — Matthew Simpson

Like most nobility, he was self-centered as a gyroscope — Patrick Rothfuss

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

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? — Theodore Roethke

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind. — Atisa

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage. — Honore De Balzac

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature! — Thomas Hardy

You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe! — Joe Abercrombie

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence, — Eero Saarinen

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. — Hazrat Ali

There's a nobility in making life smooth and clean and comfortable. It's a choice at least equal to the choice of navel-gazing for a living. — Lauren Groff

The beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting. — George Bernard Shaw

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman

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

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

8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu. — Sei Shonagon

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. — Robert Burton

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree. — Robert Bolt

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

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. — Criss Jami

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

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. — Jean Rostand

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

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. — Sappho

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

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help. — Pat Conroy

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday. — Harry Wong

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

Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns. — Mark Waid

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

Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling car
the obscure no less than the noble. — Horace

Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness. — Seiji Fuji

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

Let a man nobly live or nobly die. — Sophocles