Nobility famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
-- Boethius -
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
-- Claudius Claudianus -
True nobility is being superior to your former self.
-- Colin Firth -
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
-- Cullen Hightower -
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.
-- Gary Zukav -
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.
-- George Ade -
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
-- Imelda Marcos -
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
-- Jane Porter -
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
-- Jay McInerney -
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
-- PZ Myers -
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
-- Sally Field -
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
-- Seneca the Elder -
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
-- Solon -
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
-- Steven James
