Words matter. These are the best Nobility Quotes from famous people such as Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Lydia Millet, Thaddeus Stevens, Arthur Schopenhauer, Napoleon Bonaparte, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
In most films – especially in regards to the protagonist – really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
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.
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
You watch stuff like ‘The Real Housewives’ and you start to think, ‘We’re all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?’ But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.
There’s nobility in hard work, traditional values.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality – entails and titles of nobility – even before we had a constitution.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility – those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
When I moved to New York, I really wanted to find my bread job as close to my passion as possible. There’s nobility in waiting tables. But I really wanted to find a job in the arts, and so I started teaching.
What I love about Hugh Jackman is he just brings all the elements of my vision of Logan. The pain, the nobility, the duality of his existence.
Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering.
You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me. That’s life. There’s nobility in that. There’s focus. It’s genuine. It’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Anything that stimulates the public’s imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I’m very excited to be a part of.
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
