Nobleness Quotes

28 quotes by 22 authors

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. — Willa Cather
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy… — Katharine Lee Bates
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… — Baruch Spinoza
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. — James Russell Lowell
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can… — Robert E. Lee
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in… — Thomas Carlyle
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. — James Anthony Froude
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and… — Matthew Arnold
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. — Oscar Wilde
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather… — John Stuart Mill
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent… — William Butler Yeats
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half… — Henry James
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. — Benjamin Franklin
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he… — Henry David Thoreau
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. — Douglas Adams
And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob… — Tamora Pierce

Who Wrote These Nobleness Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 28 Nobleness Quotes as follows: