We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham LincolnTags: magnanimity noblesse-oblige
Great power involves great responsibility
Franklin D. RooseveltTags: noblesse-oblige
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Warren BuffettTags: success inspiration charity helping-others finance noblesse-oblige
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
Robert FulghumTags: debt charity stranger noblesse-oblige repay
As they say, with great power comes great responsibility.”
“Are you screwin’ with me, man?” Taylor asked bluntly.
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[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.
Ellen CushingTags: future wealth class culture philanthropy charity obligation noblesse-oblige
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.
SuskindTags: magnanimity noblesse-oblige greatest-generation graciousness
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