Nobility Quotes

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

— Homer

Superior race is spiritual nobility, not color of skin.

— Ilkin Santak

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is no nobility with bad manners.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”

— Thomas Hardy

“There is nobility in not quitting.”

— Robert Andrew Powell

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

— Egerton Brydges

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

— Rebecca West

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”

— Theodore Roethke

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

— William Wordsworth

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

— Albert Camus

One of the noblest men are those who try to keep their feet firm on the ground even if they are soaring…

— Anonymous

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

— Cullen Hightower

There's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble and finally allows us to…

— Anonymous

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man…

— Mike Mentzer

“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a…

— Anonymous

The dream you cherish and nourish in your heart are most noble part of your life. Those who stop dreaming and ignore…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and…

— Anonymous

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated…

— Agnes Repplier

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge…

— Catharine Sedgwick

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the…

— Charlie LeDuff

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual…

— Archibald Rutledge

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed .…

— Ambrose Bierce

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it…

— Aristotle

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children,…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.…

— Edmund Spenser

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;and thatis…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their…

— James Freeman Clarke

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in…

— Sam Harris

“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never…

— Charles Adolphe Wurtz

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,…

— Edmund Burke

“The people of today have no nobility. They do not even know what it means to be noble of heart. There is…

— C. JoyBell C

This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify…

— Michael Morpurgo

“But, don’t you see, since we happened to have M. de Cambremer here, and he is a Marquis, while you are only…

— Marcel Proust