To be humble to Superiors is Duty, to Equals Courtesy, to Inferiors Nobleness.
Quotes about nobleness (9 Quotes)
Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Withal I did infer your lineaments,
Being the right idea of your father,
Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons he is a living Gospel he comes in the spirit and power of Elias he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are Godlike, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the 'Iliad' itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness and that book is the Bible.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.