Birth Quote by Michael Drayton

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

— Robert Greene

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

— Moliere

Virtue alone is true nobility.

— William Gifford

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…

— Philip Sidney

Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by…

— George Washington

“Guard your integrity, attain toward maturity, develop a character of nobility, and live above mediocrity”

— Donald Pillai

“Integrity is the noblest possession. -Latin Proverb.”

— John Adair

“But I have none: the king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish…

— William Shakespeare

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

— Edward Young

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we…

— George Chapman