Nobility Quotes

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

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.

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

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

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

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

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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

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

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.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

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.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

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

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.

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.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

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

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.