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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin
(also about
Love,
Life
)
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
(also about
Life,
Tragedy
)
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
George Washington
(also about
Dignity,
Courage
)
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
(also about
Literature,
Writers,
Writing
)
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Elijah Wood
(also about
Inspiration
)
Keep your heels, head and standards high.
Oprah Winfrey
(also about
Inspiration,
Advice,
Dignity,
Principles
)
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
(also about
Wisdom,
Trouble,
Great
)
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
(also about
Age,
Immortality
)
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
(also about
Humanity
)
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
(also about
Beauty,
Reason
)
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
(also about
Inspiration,
Truth,
Advice,
Compassion,
Courage
)
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(also about
Inspiration,
Achievements,
Action
)
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Herman Melville
(also about
Melancholy,
Decadence
)