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Nobility Quotes

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Authors on Nobility Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Nietzsche Sally Field Ali ibn Abi Talib Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Sophocles Henry Wadsworth Longfellow William Wordsworth Honore de Balzac Francis Bacon Alfred Lord Tennyson Stendhal PZ Myers Friedrich Schiller Ludwig van Beethoven Marcus Tullius Cicero Alfred Rosenberg Jordan Belfort Steven James Dejan Stojanovic Ralph Waldo Emerson Iyanla Vanzant Juvenal J. Robert Oppenheimer Cassandra Clare Jane Porter Thomas Paine Georg C. Lichtenberg William Gifford Homer Imelda Marcos Claudius Claudianus Jay McInerney
2.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

3.
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
Ludwig van Beethoven

4.
A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

5.
There is no nobility with bad manners.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

6.
There's no nobility in poverty.
Jordan Belfort

7.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Alfred Rosenberg

8.
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

9.
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

10.
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
Claudius Claudianus

11.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Imelda Marcos

12.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13.
Noblest minds are easiest bent.
Homer

14.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel de Cervantes

15.
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
PZ Myers

16.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

17.
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
Jane Porter

18.
Be noble in every thought And in every deed!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

19.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal

20.
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
Steven James

21.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Boethius

22.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
Thomas Paine

23.
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.
George Ade

24.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

25.
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
Sophocles

26.
Virtue alone is true nobility.
William Gifford

27.
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
William Shakespeare

28.
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

29.
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Seneca the Elder

30.
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

31.
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
William Wordsworth

32.
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
Honore de Balzac

33.
Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
Dejan Stojanovic

34.
I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.
Sally Field

35.
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
Francis Bacon

36.
One finds nobility in the oddest places.
Cassandra Clare

37.
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
Jay McInerney

38.
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
Sally Field

39.
There is a nobility in the world of manners.
Friedrich Schiller

40.
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
Juvenal

41.
Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

42.
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Iyanla Vanzant

44.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

45.
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche