Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Sorry, I was awash in the nobility of sacrifice. What were you saying?” — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle. — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and… — Ralph Wiley Copy Share Image
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the noble and the good and the wise that they impart to us of their nobility and… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth.… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
“He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility,… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
