“There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.” KnowsFeelsMeanPoorStepsPovertyGrowing UpGrowingMomRoseSorryMy MomCleaningNobilityFeel Sorry For You Author:Ricky Gervais
“Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.” MenWarHandsPovertyModernFootballRacismDiedOneselfBoxingNobilityModern SocietyBarbaricPro Football Book:Serenity: A Boxing Memoir Source: Serenity: A Boxing Memoir
“Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king” PovertyKingsNobility Author:Ludwig van Beethoven
“The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.” PovertyAdvantageEndureNobleNobility Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.” FeelsFirstsMadeRememberPovertyOfficeChecksRuinedNobility Author:Ricky Gervais
“Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.” KnowsMenFirstsHumansMayStillsSoulPovertyVirtueReadySticksVicesNobilityInnateHuman SocietyHumiliatingHumiliateBroomsBeggary Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky