Craving Quote by Alan Weisman

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

— Boethius

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility…

— Steve Coogan

“[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should:…

— Ellen Cushing

“Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?” He shook his head. “Maybe. I don’t call it nobility, though. I…

— Cassandra Davis

When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they…

— Zicheng Hong

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

— D. B. Sweeney

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

— 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

“Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.”

— Orison Swett Marden

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is…

— James Anthony Froude