(65 quotes found)
“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hourbyhour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”
Contributed by: Dave Cohen
Laurence J. Peter
“Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.”
Voltaire
“The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.”
Jean Rostand
“New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.”
“My nobility begins in me, but yours ends in you”
Iphicrates
“Virtue is the only true nobility.”
Thomas Fuller
“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
“They have money, education and are fixated upon copying their ?betters' ? those of the nobility.”
Lynne Burroughs
“Intellectuals, which go after crowd, has never been intellectuals. The intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate themselves from the crowd.”
Ilkin Santak