Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Shigure: "That's lovely. She’s so... how shall I say it? By putting it into words I'm afraid the nobility of it all… — Natsuki Takaya 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
In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
One of the noblest men are those who try to keep their feet firm on the ground even if they are soaring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Sorry, I was awash in the nobility of sacrifice. What were you saying?” — John Green 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
Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
