Complement Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Proverb

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

— Vampoxxxx

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

— Boethius

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

— Sharon Pollock

Virtue is the truest nobility.

— Miguel de Cervantes

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

— D. B. Sweeney

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Riccardo Muti

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

— Moliere

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

— Cassandra Clare

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

— John Lancaster Spalding