Character Quote by Hosea Ballou Download Open image “Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.” — Hosea Ballou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Contempt Disgusting Noble Noble character Servility
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 Copy Share Image
There isnt anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were. — Vampoxxxx Copy Share Image
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the only answer to these intrigues. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. — Proverb Copy Share Image
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. — Steven James Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
