| "True nobility is in being superior to your previous self." »Hindustani Proverb |
| "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." »Solon |
| "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." »Rebecca West |
| "nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." »Edmund Burke |
| "There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." »Whitney Young |
| "Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders." »Oscar W. Firkins |
| "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." »Camille Paglia |
| "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness." »George Santayana |
| "Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour 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." »Laurence J. Peter |
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