The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.Nikolai Gogol
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.Diane Arbus
Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.Iyanla Vanzant
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.Ernest Hemingway
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry