Nobility Quotes

• Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Spring, Men

  "The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings".

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• 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 Peretti

  Character, Depth, Physical Strength

  Frank E. Peretti (2001). “No More Victims”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fighting

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Men, Self

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

  Portia de Rossi

  Inspirational, Success, Used

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Virtue is the truest nobility.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, Virtue, Truest

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1719). “THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.”, p.129

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

  Riccardo Muti

  Ambition, Commitment, Simplicity

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• Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Noble, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.161

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• You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loyalty, Respect, Honesty

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• Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

  Carlo Goldoni

  Noble, Bold Actions, Fortune

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• True nobility is exempt from fear.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Fear, Anxiety

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• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.193

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• 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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Humility, People

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• A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Noble, Persons

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1790.

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

  Plato

  Men, Generosity, Mind

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• There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

  Sharon Pollock

  Wise, Struggle, Winning

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• To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

  Thomas Paine

  Manly

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.288, Library of America

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• Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Noble

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

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

  Solon

  Inspirational, Trust, Character

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• 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

  Hero, Men, Shining

  Juvenal (1806). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.259

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Clever, Stupid

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Noblest minds are easiest bent.

  Homer

  Mind, Bent

  Homer (1729). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.1234, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Children, Responsibility, Goodness

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• The army is the true nobility of our country.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Army, Navy

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• A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Noble, Knows

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