They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility… — Alanna Knight Copy Share Image
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“A noble deed is a dream before it is reality. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg;… — James Allen Copy Share Image
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a… — Cesar Luis Menotti Copy Share Image
“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one says no one cares about themselves and they are no one this Is only logically when depressed because it takes… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Earth’s nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Pharaoh is divinity made in flesh. The nobility are his deputies who reflect his light. How could their places be filled by… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
“The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
