Achieve Quote by Saint Ignatius

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may…

— Anders Chydenius

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.

— Statius

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

— Anonymous

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable…

— Francesco Guicciardini

“How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise…

— James Allen

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

— Laozi

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Self-centeredness brings misery,A proud heart bring much pain; But those with true humility Have lasting peace to gain.

— Anonymous