Quotes About Nobility

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

I like to believe that there is dignity in everything.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

I'm not technically royal.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.

Qué desapasionado, prosaicamente práctico, noblemente soso es nuestro tiempo. Aunque tal vez tenga también su lado bueno: uno puede distinguirse por su extravagancia.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self All I'm really.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility lies in being superior to your previous self.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.' All I'm really getting at is that if you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve you must run your own race.

Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality and luminosity you've accessed in yourself. Very

The great women and men of the world were all givers, not takers. Renounce the common delusion that those who accumulate the most win. Instead, do work that is heroic

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Your influence in the world mirrors the glory, nobility, vitality and luminosity you've accessed in yourself.

Vuestra influencia en el mundo es reflejo de la gloria, la nobleza, la vitalidad y la luminosidad a las que hayáis accedido dentro de vosotros mismos.

But Christendom was not merely a community of warriors or even a community of the nobility. It was a civilization! Unfortunately, for generations everyone was taught that the era beginning with the fall of Rome and ending not long before the Reformations was correctly known as the 'Dark Ages'.