Famous Nobility Quotes in English

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong that to insist on being right especially when one is right.

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.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

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

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

- Nobility Quotes by Willa Cather

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.