Nobility Quotes
Nobility Quote of the day
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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
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.
We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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?
In other countries they speak of nobility and courtesy, in London they practise it.
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.
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.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.
When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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.
I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.
Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.
....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.
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.
True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
