To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
—H. L. Mencken
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
—Charles Baudelaire
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
—John B. Gough
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it?
—Florynce Kennedy
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
—William Shakespeare
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.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right—especially when one is right.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
—Homer
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
—Oscar Wilde
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
—Solon
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.
—Whitney Young
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
—Willa Cather