Quotes about Nobility

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Act sensibly. Act sincerely. Act selflessly. Act splendidly.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that — in spite of all the risks involved — a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”

to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.