Top 39 True Nobility Quotes

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

Juvenal

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#2. 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

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#3. Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me
Virtue alone is true nobility!

Juvenal

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#4. Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

George Ade

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

Ernest Hemingway,

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#6. True nobility is exempt from fear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#7. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

James Anthony Froude

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#8. A great soul craves occupations and recognizes obligations more in harmony with the true nobility of human nature.

Alfred Wesley Wishart

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#9. Virtue alone is true nobility.

William Gifford

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#10. The army is the true nobility of our country.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Portia De Rossi

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#12. There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really.

Robin S. Sharma

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#13. 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

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#14. True success lurks in the nobility of head & heart.

Mallika Tripathi

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#15. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

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#16. I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Robert Duvall

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#17. My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third ... and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

Kirk Gibson

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#18. Part of me misses you so much it hurts, while part of me wishes I never even met you to begin with

Colleen Hoover

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#19. It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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#20. [waiting on God] is not only rendered necessary by our sin and helplessness. It is simply and ruly our restoration to our original destiny and our highhest nobility, to our true place and glory as creatures blessedly dependent on the All-Glorious God.

Andrew Murray

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#21. money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks. "I

Louisa May Alcott

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#22. It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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#23. True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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#24. I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

Lucinda Williams

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#25. Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,
these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.

Catharine Sedgwick

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#26. And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do.

Robert Beatty

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#27. The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

David Rees

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#28. Epithet, n.
I think the worst you ever called me was a "cunt rag."
"You mean I'm a tampon?" I asked. "I'm a tampon for not letting you drive?"
I laughed. You didn't. At least, not until you sobered up.

David Levithan

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#29. The werewolf paid cash, sliding the change into the hip pocket of his jeans.

Katlyn Conrad

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#30. True power. Limitless power - only graced a fair few. It gave those lucky few the ability - the nobility, to be courteous and polite. All while holding their fucking balls in their hands.

Pepper Winters

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#31. For a few seconds I thought about my little brothers who loved connecting things with rope. I wondered if I'd ever see them again and a torpedo of sadness struck me and moved straight trough my body.

Miriam Toews

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

George Edward Woodberry

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

Steven James

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#34. Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went down.

Chris Crutcher

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#35. 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

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#36. 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

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#37. 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

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#38. What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

Eve Arnold

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#39. 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

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