Nobility & Dignity Quotes

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.

Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

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.

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

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.