Quotes About Nobility

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

Don't be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.