#nobility

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

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

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

— Kahlil Gibran

#nobility-of-spirit #soulful #beauty

Nobility is not only in forgiveness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #forgivness #literature #literature-quotes #nobility

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#aristocracy #birthright #meritocracy #nobility #talent

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

— Albert Camus

#courage #indifference #nobility #profound #real

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it. ↗

— Charles Durning

#anyone #bitter #destruction #frustrated #go

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#convictions #his #human #human being #independent