Common Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The people of today have no nobility. They do not even know what it means to be noble of heart. There is no strength…

— CJoybell C

There isnt anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.

— Vampoxxxx

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

— Proverb

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway

“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and…

— Aristotle

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

— Ernest Hemingway

“...civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility…

— Steve Coogan