Quotes About Nobility

#1. Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Nelson Mandela

#2. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Thomas Wolfe

#3. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

Lao-Tzu

#4. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini

#5. Knowledge was the great thing
not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

Graham Greene

#6. I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performace of the pieties enjoined b ythe Church

Mark Twain

#7. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Sally Field

#8. It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.

Herbert Spencer

#9. I told you I don't care! I said again and again! I don't care! Whoever you are. Whatever you do. Rank or nobility, they have nothing to do with me. I just want to be with you! I've told you many times!

Shoko Hidaka

#10. Remember, nobility knows no race or station. Always judge a man by his heart and actions.

Lorna Seilstad

#11. Stop chasing things that are beneath the truth of who you are. Stop holding on to things and people that weigh you down. Stop behaving in ways that don't honor the divinity and nobility within you.

Iyanla Vanzant

#12. The bourgeoisie, when it was struggling against the nobility sustained by the clergy, hoisted the flag of free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, it changed its tone and manner and today it uses religion to support its economic and political supremacy

Paul Lafargue

#13. The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Alfred Rosenberg

#14. And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#15. The public has an exalted view of authors, and rightly so. Great writers impact deeply on our imagination. And yet, behind the kudos, there sometimes lurks a person at odds with the nobility of the author photo or the 'sheer humanity' of the prose style.

Conrad Williams

#16. And let us be seated, gentlemen. Drinking standing up, in a rush and without due reverence, does not become the nobility.' They

Andrzej Sapkowski

#17. There isn't anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#18. I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Jane Porter

#20. Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Humanity hadn't changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him.

James S.A. Corey

#22. The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
"Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957

Frank Lloyd Wright

#23. Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.

Idries Shah

#25. I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

John Lasseter

#26. Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Orison Swett Marden

#27. You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!

Joe Abercrombie

#28. There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior - the best warrior - isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that?

Erin Hunter

#29. There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise.

Daniel Abraham

#30. Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Boethius

#32. It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Stendhal

#33. Suffering is a form of egoism.
I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming portrait (like the one Gide made of Madeleine).
(Yet: everything is true: the sweetness, the energy, the nobility, the kindness.)

Roland Barthes

#34. Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.

Robert Steven Gottfried

#35. The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#36. Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Shinichi Suzuki

#37. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

Elaine S. Dalton

#38. The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

#39. 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

#40. The dignity of folly
And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence could spur the growth of a new kind of nobility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#41. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Peter David

#42. To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Mark Twain

#43. What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

Theodore Roethke

#44. The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Steven James

#45. Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

Sophocles

#46. We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

Dejan Stojanovic

#47. The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.

Joan Stanley-Baker

#48. Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#49. Stripped of their property, crushed and mutilated, they still embody the nobility of Israel and the eternity of God, while their enemy - who is your enemy as well - embodies all that is most vile in man. I shall act not as their detractor, but as their melitz yosher, their intercessor.

Elie Wiesel

#50. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended
there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense.

Aldous Huxley

#51. Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

#52. but where does this nobility come from? Generosity or fear? Wisdom or ignorance?

Devdutt Pattanaik

#53. I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

James Gates Percival

#54. Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

#55. If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

Alanna Knight

#56. It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#57. A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

George Orwell

#58. The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

Albert Einstein

#59. Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.

Ernest Dimnet

#60. 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

#61. Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

Agatha Christie

#62. For the country was so rejoiced at the death of the giants, and so many of their lost friends had been restored to the nobility and men of wealth, that the gladness surpassed the grief. "Ye have indeed left your lives to your people, my great brothers!

George MacDonald

#63. You have become the king of a domain in which the popular agitators hate each other for racial reasons, while the nobility fight each other for fun, and neither the racial maniac nor the overlord stops to consider the lot of the common soldier, who is the one person that gets hurt.

T.H. White

#64. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

Socrates

#65. I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Aleksandar Hemon

#66. True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Portia De Rossi

#67. Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.

Sophocles

#68. A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

Lemony Snicket

#69. You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair ... Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

SebastiAn

#70. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.

Emanuel Ax

#71. I am a Count, Not a Saint.

Alexandre Dumas

#72. Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.

William Shakespeare

#73. Never complain, about the number of hours you have put in, to do a job, Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#74. I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature - the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds - which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.

Ruth Ozeki

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

John Lancaster Spalding

#76. One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Socrates

#77. By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Theodore Bikel

#78. Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man.
Correction.
Earl.
So what, indeed.

Nicole Castro

#79. If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

Plato

#80. Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

William Blackstone

#81. For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

James T. Walsh

#82. But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!

Janny Wurts

#83. Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among

Bill O'Reilly

#84. I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

George Edward Woodberry

#85. Earth's nobility are soon forgotten. John Bunyan, the Bedford tinker, has outlived the whole crowd of those who were the nobility in his day. They lived for self, and their memory is blotted out. He lived for God and for souls, and his name is as fragrant as ever it was.

D.L. Moody

#86. The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Georges Bataille

#87. Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.

Seiji Fuji

#88. There are a countless variety of hardships in any life," Kedean answered," ... only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.

Anihyr Moonstar

#89. Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Francis Bacon

#90. The Highland way says it's who you say you love and who you serve, which is of worth. Not some title that is passed down upon you by tradition. That's the English way, and the Lowland way
but who can be born a nobleman? Nobility is earned ... 'Tis our choices that make us.

Susan Fletcher

#91. It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon; the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on.

Edwin A. Abbott

#92. In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#93. Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

AainaA-Ridtz

#94. The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Saul Alinsky

#95. She didn't need to be received as nobility to be noble.

Courtney Milan

#96. The greatest hurdle one must overcome along the journey from peasantry to nobility is a commitment to reading and reflection. For nothing distinguishes the nobleman from the peasant more than knowledge and understanding.
Vicar Sayeedi - Author

Vicar Sayeedi

#97. I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Imelda Marcos

#98. There is no nobility in self torture.

K.A. Hosein

#99. Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#100. There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

James Anthony Froude