Nobility of soul is more honorable than nobility of birth.
Nobility is what is earned by those who have no other earnings.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Avarice is opposed to nobility. It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Attain complete emptiness, Hold fast to stillness. Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens. Mind opening leads to compassion, Compassion to nobility, Nobility to heavenliness, Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies. There is no danger.
Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?” He shook his head. “Maybe. I don’t call it nobility, though. I think it’s our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant optimists. We’re the emotional descende...
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it bec...
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers' gold: for whatever has its price...
A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.