Quotes about Nobility

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who. Now

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!

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

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

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.

To generous souls every task is noble.

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?