Character Quote by B. Carroll Reece Download Open image “In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.” — B. Carroll Reece ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Eras Grows Old fashioned Virtue
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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. To break… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world.… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum,… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security. — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself,… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
