Nobility Quotes

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man;

true nobility is being superior to your former self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person.

The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule.

No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order.

It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility;

for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours? Do you not covet all? Do you not long to have it; to enjoy it; to overcome it? To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands, that they may get it all?

We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a benighted or shadowy period when life and the people who constituted it had scarcely anything in common with ourselves. In reality the men of the Middle Ages were moved by the same emotions and impulses as our own, and their lives presented the same incongruous mixture of nobility and baseness.

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought;

it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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.

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God.

Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me.

That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning;

that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men.

True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr.

Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.