Quotes about Nobility

But of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none more noble, none more powerful than when good men of congenial character are joined in intimate friendship.

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows them to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.

Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honor clad In naked majesty seem'd lords of all.

The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.