Quotes About Nobility

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.

you cease to utter falsehoods and live according to the dictates of your conscience, you can maintain your nobility, even when facing the ultimate threat; if you abide, truthfully and courageously, by the highest of ideals, you will be provided with more security and strength than will be offered by any short-sighted concentration on your own safety; if you live properly, fully, you can discover meaning so profound that it protects you even from the fear of death.

When you are visited by chaos and swallowed up; when nature curses you or someone you love with illness; or when tyranny rends asunder something of value that you have built, it is salutary to know the rest of the story. All of that misfortune is only the bitter half of the tale of existence, without taking note of the heroic element of redemption or the nobility of the human spirit requiring a certain responsibility to shoulder.

Um herói é algo positivo, não apenas a ausência do mal.

Who's that? That's the King. Who's he? The Duke. Who's she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

Pelópidas's father, a collateral descendant, inherited only the name and the aristocratic habit of not working.

Y porque se comenzaba a aburrir de comprobar que esas elegancias no eran más que subterfugios, Jerónimo regresó a su tierra americana, burda y primitiva, en busca de obligaciones que dieran nobleza a su libertad. ¿Pero cómo tomar la resolución de incorporarse a un mundo cuyas verdades más altas son decretadas por un guiso de congrio en escabeche?

El alma humana tiene una gran necesidad de blancura. Desde que lo blanco se oscurece, la desdicha empieza. La práctica y conciencia de todas las virtudes, la posesión de las mejores cualidades, la arrogancia de los más nobles sacrificios no bastan a consolar el alma de un solo extravío.

Quien obtiene favores sin tener méritos, debe temblar: fracasará después, cien veces, en cada cambio de viento. Los nobles ingenios solo confían en sí mismos, luchan, salvan los obstáculos, se imponen.

Repudian las cosas líricas porque obligan a pensamientos muy altos y a gestos demasiado dignos.

One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fish, there can be no big ones. Why does the girl not require her lover a noble and honoured name, a manly heart to protect her weakness, and a resolute spirit which will not be satisfied with engendering slaves? Let her discard all fear, behave nobly and yield not her youth to the weak and faint-hearted.

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

With this life I give you nobility and certainty and faith.

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

Philippians 4. "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praise worthy-think about such things.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Man or woman......It doesn't matter! One of strength......And nobility......Is always a prince.

Edmund Burke, anglický filozof 18. století, napsal jednou svému pÃ…â"¢íteli: "Král sice pozvedne gentlemana do Å¡lechtického stavu, ale gentlemana z nÄ›j neudÄ›lá

Das Edle ist wie eine Glocke, schlägt man sie, so tönt sie, schlägt man sie nicht, so tönt sie nicht.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.