My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less… — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you… — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. — Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury Copy Share Image
Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
“Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
