Character Quote by Charles Sumner Download Open image “Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.” — Charles Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Excellence Flower Moral Moral excellence Progress
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain… — Michael J. Sandel Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather, we have… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Excellence is a Kingdom value, and is not to be confused with perfectionism, which is a counterfeit and comes from the religious spirit. One… — Lance Wallnau Copy Share Image
“Excellence in the mind is wisdom. Excellence in the heart is virtue. Excellence in the soul is love.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I… — Charles Sumner 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
