#nobility

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#nobility #life

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#battle #brutality #deprivation #documentaries #endurance

One finds nobility in the oddest places. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#nobility

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#city #commendation #eminent #father #great

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. ↗

— Viktor Korchnoi

#element #flaw #human #human element #lost

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#fellow #fellow men #former #lies #men

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem. ↗

— Jane Porter

#gem #nobility #setting #virtue #without

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#nobility-of-spirit #soulful #beauty

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inspirational #love #made-me-cry #nobility #sacrifice

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#competence #nobility #self-respect #virtue #love