Breeding Quote by Joseph Addison

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself.…

— Dalai Lama

Esteem all things that are good.

— Tibullus

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

— William Cowper

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding,…

— J. Boone

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently,…

— Henry Fielding

Qualities are things we ALL have in life.

— Emstear

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or…

— Mark Twain

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

— David Hume

To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built…

— Harold B. Lee

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

— Anonymous