Nobility Quote by Edmund Burke

Nobility means strength of character, a word of honor, immovability and mind over matter.

— Anonymous

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

— Albert Camus

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

— Moliere

“Nobility is the perfection in each thing of its proper nature.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Vampoxxxx

“Therefore, O my brothers, is a new nobility needed: to oppose all mob-rule and all despotism and to write anew upon new law-tables the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Proverb

“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

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson