Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've done in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Why not? If you're extolling the virtues of the change, "She [Hillary Clinton] makes more change, she's done more change than anybody in my lifetime! I've never met somebody who is better change. "
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.
Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues. . . I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.