“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
Elijah Wood
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire”
Hermann Hesse
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
Rebecca West
