Nobility Quotes

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

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

"Noble 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 Wright

"The 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 Young

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."
-Homer

"War 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 Mussolini

"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."
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
-Rebecca West

"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath."
-Solon

"What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?"
-Theodore Roethke

"The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount."
-Robert Bolt

"Nobility has obligations."
-Duc De Levis

"We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety."
-Joshua Loth Liebman

"This is not a noble cause. This is a nobility cause."
-Cody Camacho

"My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you."
-Iphicrates

"Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?"
-Ronald Duncan

"The usual fraud is a refusal to have children. Or you see it if somebody is homosexual, or has some kind of disease, or claims they're from nobility when they're not."
-Raoul Felder

"There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]"
-Duc De Levis