Nobility Quotes

257 quotes by 211 authors

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot. — William Shakespeare
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an… — Charles Durning
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who… — Julius Evola
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought… — Mike Mentzer
Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It… — Henri Nouwen
No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of… — J.R. Miller
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our… — Marianne Williamson
Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let… — Wayne Dyer
Make a career of humanity... It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's no nobility in poverty. — Jordan Belfort
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film,… — Diane Lane
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor… — Mahatma Gandhi
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. — William Wordsworth
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy,… — Neal A. Maxwell
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden
And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the… — John Donne
A noble deed is a step toward God. — Jeffrey R. Holland
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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