Achievement and success Quote by Oliver Benjamin

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the…

— Lin Yutang

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

— Anonymous

The American vice is explanation.

— Gore Vidal

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and…

— Paul Craig Roberts

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

— Rene Descartes

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

— Plato

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt