Good and great are seldom in the same man.
Winston S. ChurchillNever support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton WilderTag: morality virtue sinners vice
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
Harry TrumanTag: politics religion virtue christian-behavior
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Remy de GourmontPatience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
Vera NazarianTag: patience virtue achievement
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....
AristotleTag: life virtue happy amusement
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.
Ayn RandTag: virtue independence worth fountainhead
[On the virtuous man] "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.
PlatoTag: virtue
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
AristotleTag: life virtue action quality
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
AristotleTag: activism patriotism virtue good value civil-disobedience
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