Quotes About Nobility

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Pure is honourable.

Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Non c'è fine alla crudeltà in questo mondo, e non importa quanto si precipiti in basso, non c'è mai fondo. Ma tu hai una cosa bella in te, Mose. Sei un sioux. Nelle tue vene scorre sangue buono e nobile. Non permettere a nessuno di dirti il contrario.

This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

What Slattery wants is a ring painted on concrete in the empty desert. With no living spectator around for miles, just him and the grinning demons. A chance to fight them each, one by one . . . to leave them broken and humbled, or even to lose the fights, but with nobility, and earn the respect of all the men who have showed him none. I want peace, he thinks to himself late at night. I want peace. But then he dreams of fistfights.

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce

Knights" had originally been a term for freelance warriors, drawn from the younger or, often, bastard sons of the minor nobility.

But, he added, in a rare moment of self-revelation, "such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.

endeavor's nobility is ability, action's nobility is timing. When you never strive you never go wrong.

It may . . . be pronounced as an universal axiom in politics, That an hereditary prince, a nobility without vassals, and a people voting by their representatives, form the best monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?