Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
“An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what… — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
