#nobility

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#authority #beast #boldness #conquering #courage

You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah) ↗

— Pamela Clare

#integrity #nobility #title #family

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. ↗

— T.H. White

#life #merlin #nobility #pacifism #peace

Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot. ↗

— J. Leigh Bralick

#bravery #human-nature #nobility #men

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. ↗

— Walter Scott

#oppression

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #brightness #dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature

... in qualsiasi attività nobile o denigrata c'è sempre spazio per una folgorazione di onnipotenza. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#nobility

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#life

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ↗

— Rebecca West

#adventures #desire #fertilize #nobility #ought

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