Noble Character Quotes

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

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  Abdul Kalam

  Teacher   Teaching   Character  

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• I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

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  Mary Augusta Ward

  Spiritual   Character   Men  

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• Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

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  Hosea Ballou

  Character   Noble   Disgusting  

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• Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

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  Gustave Flaubert

  Character   Comforting   Noble  

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Madame Bovary”, p.114, Vintage

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• The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.

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  James Hillman

  Hero   Character   Blessing  

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

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  Karl Jaspers

  Character   Greatness   Mind  

  1953

• Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

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  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude   Character   Soul  

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• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

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  Tacitus

  Character   Age   Noble  

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

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• I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.

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  Val Kilmer

  Fun   Character   Sacrifice  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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