Quotes about Nobility

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

Leave not a stain in thine honor.

She [Jael] brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

Before honor is humility.

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice?

Waiting on God] is not only rendered necessary by our sin and helplessness. It is simply and ruly our restoration to our original destiny and our highhest nobility, to our true place and glory as creatures blessedly dependent on the All-Glorious God.

When we see that humility is something infinitely deeper than contrition, and accept it as our participation in the life of Jesus, we shall begin to learn that it is our true nobility, and that to prove it in being servants of all is the highest fulfillment of our destiny, as men created in the image of God.

I will venture to say, that in no writings whatever can be found more bark and steel for the mind, if I may use the expression; more that can brace and invigorate every manly and noble sentiment. No. 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicism, as the Sun of Revelation is brighter than the twilight of Pagan philosophy.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.