Nobility Quotes

257 quotes by 211 authors

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. — Claudius Claudianus
There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the… — Ricky Gervais
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than… — Ernest Renan
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when… — Marianne Williamson
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers,… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,… — Karl Marx
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition.… — Susan B. Anthony
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. — Khalil Gibran
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is… — Confucius
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. — Sally Field
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. — Hermann Hesse
The noblest search is the search for excellence. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Samuel Johnson
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours… — John Lasseter
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to… — Benito Mussolini
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty,… — Camille Paglia

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