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

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

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.

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

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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.

Real nobility is based on scorn courage and profound indifference.

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.

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.