Character Quote by Norm MacDonald

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all…

— Moliere

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics…

— Satchel Paige

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

— Jean Paul

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

— Wendell Phillips

Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these,…

— Wilford Woodruff

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics…

— Anonymous

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned…

— Edmund Burke

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

— Henry Miller

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

— Jean Paul

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan