Character Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

— Carlos Mencia

“He had seen often enough the wilful truncation people undertook upon leaving childhood (and the wonder of its endless possibilities), as if to exist…

— Steven Erikson

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

— Fernando Haddad

“Human beings only can grow by changing awareness and consciousness about their surroundings and about the universe as a whole.”

— Debasish Mridha

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

— Claude McKay

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being,…

— Bertrand Russell

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

— Nelson Mandela

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

— Edgar Cayce

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

— C. S. Lewis

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished,…

— David Gemmell

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be…

— Miguel Cervantes