Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
- Adrian McPhersonThey are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Adrian LajousI too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
- HomerLife ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Adnan AliNoble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd WrightThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire
- Hermann HesseWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- Oscar WildeSweet mercy is nobility`s true badge.
- William ShakespeareNo one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- Willa CatherIt is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich NietzscheThe 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 YoungBe noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own
- James Russell LowellA noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue nobility is exempt from fear.
- Marcus Tullius CiceroWhatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it.
- Martin Luther KingThere is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
- ProverbRespect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours -- to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
- Savitri DeviIf noble death be virtue`s chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom`s crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest
- Simonides