When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
“Fruits doesn't fall far from the tree but there seeds can go places and wherever they go by their virtues they leave… — Indira Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
“The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God;… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making. — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.” — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
