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

Elijah Wood

Men

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

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.

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.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

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.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Mercy

Nobility

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.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

Jean Rostand

Being

Nobility

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Riccardo Muti