Quotes about Nobility

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Honor is the greatest poet.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command.And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

Stripped of their property, crushed and mutilated, they still embody the nobility of Israel and the eternity of God, while their enemy—who is your enemy as well—embodies all that is most vile in man. I shall act not as their detractor, but as their melitz yosher, their intercessor.