Top 41 Nobility Of Character Quotes
#1. For friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#2. It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.
Susanna Clarke
#3. Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.
George Ade
#4. An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#6. Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.
Georgette Heyer
#8. A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
Flann O'Brien
#9. There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.
Maria Jane McIntosh
#10. For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#11. Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
#12. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Malcolm Forbes
#13. The Roman character had a strong streak of snobbery: effectively, citizens preferred to vote for families with strong brand recognition, electing son after father after grandfather to the great magistracies of state, indulging the nobility's dynastic pretensions with a numbing regularity.
Tom Holland
#14. The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
Frank E. Peretti
#15. The character for 'mob' is formed from the character for 'nobility' on one side and the character for 'sheep' on the other. So that's what a mob is, a herd of sheep that turns into a pack of wolves because they believe themselves to be serving a noble cause.
Ken Liu
#16. Human beings manifesting the fullness of who they were created to be would be inviting and correspondingly transformational in a manner almost mysterious.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,
yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#18. This is not your mom's fairy tale.'
From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
Ashen Venema
#19. It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
Enid Blyton
#21. Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.
D.B. Jackson
#22. Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#23. Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
Hugh Downs
#24. As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
Bong Joon-ho
#25. He heard the sob she tried to swallow back and thought unhappily that if all the storybooks were right, that there was nobility to be found in adversity and character to be built in tribulation, then he was doing a piss-poor job of both finding and building.
Anonymous
#26. Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.
Jim Carrey
#27. In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
Nicholas Sparks
#29. I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?
Hildegard Of Bingen
#30. Any technical advance that was conceivable to the mind would one day be made a reality by scientists.
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.
Norman Lock
#32. The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.
Charles Dickens
#33. What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.
Kathleen Hanna
#34. But it's mine," he whispered against my cheek and then his mouth moved to my ear. "All, fuckin', mine.
Kristen Ashley
#35. Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.
Oli Anderson
#36. But if we wait on this wedding, you can make my dress crimson. I will not wear gold if my Imperial nobility is bought with the blood of innocent civilians who died while I had a party.
Elise Kova
#37. In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
Joaquin Phoenix
#38. You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.
Archibald Rutledge
#39. Perhaps you do not understand that God is kind to you so you will change your hearts and lives" (Rom. 2:4 NCV). The
Max Lucado
#40. The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#41. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
Nawal El Saadawi
