Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings. — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.” — Dana Kramer-Rolls Copy Share Image
Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
There's a hero in all of us that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble and finally allows us to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is beingsuperior to your former self; because life isnt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed .… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The trouble with beauty is feelings of superiority, the trouble with generosity is extravagance, the trouble with noble descent is sinful pride. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, ever since I was a kid I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend and, you know, the notion of… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be. — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend, and, you know, the notion of nobility in… — Matt Frewer Copy Share Image
