Ancient Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Riccardo Muti

“Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he lacks the…

— Inayat Khan

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Boethius

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

— D. B. Sweeney

“But even among the great traditional peoples, the situation is not different: from China to Greece, from Rome to the primordial Nordic groups, then…

— Julius Evola

“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.” “They're…

— Andrew Ashling

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

— Xunzi

“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