True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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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 some other man. 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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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.
quote by Whitney Young

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Bad, yet superior
Disloyalty is evil
But still superior to infidelity
Ingratitude is bad
But still superior to betrayal
Meanness is low
But still superior to imprudence.
Revenge is cruel
But still superior to assault.
26.06.2008.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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Strung On A Thread
Love is superior
Love is super-most
It is true
And it is not true
There is anything
Superior to love
I am love
I am the lover
Everything rests
Upon love
As pearls are
Strung on a thread.
poem by Gajanan Mishra

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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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The truth suffers
He is mean and still superior to me
As I am greedy that he is not.
He is possessive and still superior,
As I am covetous that he is not.
He visits prostitutes and still superior,
As I have an eye for cuckolds.
But I am held higher than him.
04.08.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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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.
01.10.2010.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

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

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If There's A True God
If there's a true God that true God must be kinder
Than the Gods the billions kneel to for to pray
The selfish Gods that men do go to war for
And invade Countries from their own Homeshores far away.
If there's a God that God does not live out there
Your true God is your God who lives within
And if your God within is not philanthropic
Then you are one who is vulnerable to sin.
If there's a true God that God is not divisive
With the followers of other Gods he would not want us to fight
Your true God would not want you to others to feel superior
Or you to be looked on as a lesser light.
If there's a true God that God does have compassion
And that God believes in human equality
But sad to say the Gods many do worship
Are Gods who do seem to crave an enemy.
poem by Francis Duggan

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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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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
quote by Georg Simmel

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