“Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — Charles Dickens 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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness,… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
“You must love no-thingness, You must flee something, You must remain alone, And go to nobody. You must be very active And… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues:… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His… — Kylie Bisutti Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“First are those which free us from the strongest passions: laziness, love of comfort, sensuality, and pride. These virtues—fortitude, detachment, chastity, and… — Juan Luis Lorda Copy Share Image
I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realised I had an issue with my mobile phone use when a friend started explaining the virtues of the Fast 800… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“If Pierre Bon-Bon had his failings--and what great man has not a thousand?--if Pierre Bon-Bon, I say, had his failings, they were… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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