Blame Quote by Anonymous

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics…

— Satchel Paige

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

— Wilford Woodruff

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people,…

— Bertrand Russell

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places…

— Charles Simmons

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

— Latin Proverb

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned…

— Edmund Burke

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

— Anonymous

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

— Augustus Hare

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of…

— Spark Matsunaga

All great virtues become great men.

— Pierre Corneille

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on…

— Luc de Clapiers