Nobility Quotes

257 quotes by 211 authors

On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to… — Lionel Terray
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard… — Ernest Dimnet
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here… — Edgar Guest
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life,… — Jamake Highwater
There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win. — Unknown Author
And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels -… — Socrates
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety — Joshua L. Liebman
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their… — Edmund Burke
When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument. — Emanuel Ax
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a… — John Cowper Powys
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity… — Sheri L. Dew
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. — Steven James
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? — Bantu Holomisa
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who… — Charlie LeDuff
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem — Jane Porter
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. — Socrates
Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know… — Elaine S. Dalton

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