One finds nobility in the oddest places.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…

— Ayn Rand

The army is the true nobility of our country.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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 only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things, yet keeping fineness…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

— George Hammond

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of…

— Pete Hegseth

“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for a supply…

— Emmanuel Sieyés

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last…

— L. Frank Baum

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

— Eugene O'Neill

“I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”

— Anonymous

Love to learn every noble soul without hesitation, without expectation and without discrimination.

— Chanda Kaushik

“Earth’s nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in his day.…

— D.L. Moody

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley