Character Quote by Sarah Josepha Hale

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

— Andre Maurois

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

— Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

— Rachel Carson

Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be…

— Edward Young

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities…

— Giorgos Seferis

strength and beauty must go hand in hand

— Louisa May Alcott

“Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guilelessness; sincerity—these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.”

— Henry Drummond

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

— Albert Einstein

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

— John Ruskin

Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and…

— Eric Bentley