Asks Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

— Michael Drayton

Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.

— Robin Williams

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

— Woodrow Wilson

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

— Samuel Johnson

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or…

— Jonathan Swift

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is of the nobility of man's soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so proneto give, that he delighteth in…

— Thomas Traherne

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

— Confucius

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value…

— Marcus Aurelius

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

— William Wordsworth