(65 quotes found)
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”
Cesare Pavese
“Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath”
Solon
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire”
Hermann Hesse
“What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?”
Theodore Roethke
“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”
Benito Mussolini
