“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice. — Roger Ebert 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
“You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake… — SebastiAn Copy Share Image
…for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help." I was too flummoxed to tell him I… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely… — John Webster 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
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
“By speaking with courtesy and respect, you are offering a wonderful gift to yourself, a useful embarrassment to the unkind, and a… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility… — Flann O'Brien 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
I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility,… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
