Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le… — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. — John D. MacDonald 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
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned,… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The… — John Cowper Powys 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
And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the… — 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
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
“Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. — Cullen Hightower 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
I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights in life; to be a good friend is one of the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
“Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its… — AainaA-Ridtz A R 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
There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very… — Charles Dickens 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
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image