Action Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power…

— John Frederick Boyes

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

“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

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

— Boethius

The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

— Atisa

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

— Riccardo Muti

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

Virtue alone is true nobility.

— William Gifford

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

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“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