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Nobility of conduct is a greater recommendation than nobility of birth.

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
quote by Imelda Marcos

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Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility of birth.
The nobility
The decadence of the nobility
Plagues the society, unobserved, more than
The immorality of the mass does.
Yet the nobility emerges unsoiled.
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poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

The army is the true nobility of our country.
quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

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True nobility is exempt from fear.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Think noble, Talk noble and Get Nobel
Noble are those
Who have self evolved
Humane values
And who stand by what they value
Not necessarily nobility
Of a person is assessed
On what they own or acquired
On whether they have power and authority
Any way present day requirement is that
A person needs to be rich and powerful
For he or she to be declared noble
Nobility enhances with popularity
The more popularity the greater nobility
The cumulative effect of
Power and popularity is
Immensely reflected on
The hurry in which one gets into
Noble cadre
Thus a person with
Self evolved humane values
Popularity, fame and power
Assumes greater nobility
In the society
But note the fame one acquires
Through notoriety
Does not and will add to his
Nobility scale
The person may even create
Controversies without, of course,
Affecting the social harmony
And remain noble
What about acting on your noble ideas
It looks from one of the recent
Nobel awardees
That you need not act
On your ideas
Just keep talking about them
In all possible gatherings
But ensure that the crowd accepts
Whatever great things you have to say
To become a Nobel Laureate
You require to do only these
Think noble
Just talk noble
And get the Nobel
poem by Bashyam Narayanan

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Piety, prudence, wit, and civility, are the elements of true nobility.
There is a certain nobility and dignity in combat soldiers and medical aid men with dirt in their ears. They are rough and their language gets coarse because they live a life stripped of convention and niceties. Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other.
quote by Bill Mauldin

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
quote by Elijah Wood

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There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
quote by Ernest Hemingway

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Tamora: Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:
Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
line from Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1593)

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Tamora: Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge:
Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.
line from Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1593)

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From all evil against which the law bars you, you should be barred, at an infinite distance, by honour, by conscience, and nobility. Does the law require patriotism, philanthropy, self-abnegation, public service, purity of purpose, devotion to the needs of others who have been placed in the world below you? The law is a great thing, — because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.
quote by Anthony Trollope

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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
quote by Carroll O'Connor

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"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
quote by Henry David Thoreau

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