Balanced Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

— John C. Bogle

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying historturer but not of keeping his temper.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these,…

— Wilford Woodruff

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“There is nothing more despicable than moral weakness. Physical weakness may not be preventable, but moral weakness has no such excuse. It is cowardice.…

— Robert Peate

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to…

— John Stuart Mill

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that…

— George Eliot

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave…

— Marcus Aurelius