There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
- Elijah WoodI was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
- Imelda MarcosI believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
- Camille PagliaWar alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
- Benito MussoliniA lot of her is me. I`ve had this broad under my belt for five years. I own her - and nobody can tell me that I don`t own her. I love every single dimension and component of her being. Her nobility, her flawed character, her laughter, her love of the absurd, her love of the unknown, her love of science... I`ve loved her great heart, her formidable spirit, her guts. She has a much better mind than mine, and a gifted imagination as well, but she`s a little prickly, and certainly not without ego. She has this profound sense of humanity: she can talk to anybody and they listen.
- Kate MulgrewThe German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
- Alfred RosenbergBut to establish its cause upon nothing and yet not to burn all bridges behind it: that is the nobility of character of the National Socialist era.
- Alfred RosenbergIn an age when nobility has no true signature, an expensive designer bag is the most rapid social shorthand for status,
- Anna JohnsonLife ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Adnan AliPut more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
- Adrian McPhersonTrue revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
- Al HummelOur awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
- Al HummelNobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
- Ali AbduAmericans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
- Alice HydeTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
- Alvina TanIt shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
- Alvina TanI never look upon the mass of girls going into our dining-room or chapel without feeling their nobility, the sovereignty of their pure spirit.
- Alyssa BiondoIt is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
- Andreas HoistadYou should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.
- Anne CahillWhere in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
- Bantu HolomisaSweet mercy is nobility`s true badge.
- William ShakespeareThe truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- Whitney YoungSkepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca
- George SantayanaTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
- Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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