Ability Quote by Noah Webster

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

— Abigail Adams

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral…

— Ali Sina

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor…

— Samuel Johnson

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“special" knowledge gives them a sense of power, control, status and/or monetary gain. For some, the need to belong is so powerful that they…

— Carol A Brown

Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

“Justice, humanity, or political wisdom, are qualities they are too little acquainted with in themselves, to appreciate them in others. Valor will acquire their…

— Edward Gibbon