Quote by Abigail Adams Download Open image “Great necessities call out great virtues.” — Abigail Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
