Quotes About Inner nobility

Curiously, people usually resist their good qualities even more emphatically than they resist facing their negative qualities. There may be a character in your dream who behaves in a noble and courageous way. Since that inner person is part of you, its qualities are also yours. So long as you are facing your negative and immature traits squarely, you also have a duty to acknowledge the fine qualities in yourself, and to live them consciously.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is 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.

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.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

Por más harapos y jirones que vista, en mi interior puedo seguir siendo una princesa. María Antonieta en prisión, vestida de negro e insultada por su pueblo, tuvo más altura que cuando todo iba bien en la corte de Versalles —seguía cavilando Sara —. Es fácil parecer una princesa vistiendo ropajes de paño dorado, pero conducirse como tal sin que nadie lo sospeche, eso sí que es un gran triunfo

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."- Page. 164

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy .

The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

Why is Thorn, a person with a noble heart made to wear the form of a monster, condemned to live here shackled to the shadows and the stone?

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

Lifted, by his fantasy, into a high interior world, he scored off briefly and entirely all the grimy smudges of life: he existed nobly in a heroic world with lovely and virtuous creatures.

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

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.

The last infirmity of a noble mind»: la última flaqueza de una mente noble. Es lo que dice Milton de la vanidad. ¿Qué le parece? Hasta los mejores hombres tienen su granito de vanidad. Lo cual quiere decir que, cuanto peor es un hombre, más vanidad tiene, y que los peores, como Ferrer, son sólo vanidad.

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

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

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

Inside each of us there is a noble heart. This heart is the source of our finest aspiration for ourselves and the world. It fills us with the courage to act on our aspirations. Our nobility may be obscured at times, covered over with small thoughts or blocked by confused and confusing emotions. But a noble heart lies intact within each of us nonetheless, ready to open and be offered to the world… When we clear away all that blocks it, this heart can change the world. - 17th Karmapa