Ability Quote by Abigail Adams

These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the…

— Santiago Calatrava

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these…

— Catharine Sedgwick

Inspire virtues and, most importantly, strength and wisdom.

— Anonymous

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

— Samuel Smiles

You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.

— Anonymous

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor…

— Noah Webster

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

— Sai Baba

Some people are more talented than others. Some are more educationally privileged than others. But we all have the capacity to be great. Greatness…

— Peter Koestenbaum

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.

— Ted Malloch

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

— Ambrose Bierce