When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.
Quotes
Benjamin Franklin
It is a great mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a
Carlos P. Romulo
We are fallible. We certainly haven’t attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
William Wordsworth
The best portion of a good man’s life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Mather Lewis
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from
Daniel Webster
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.
Clare Booth Luce
In the final analysis there is no solution to man’s progress but the day’s honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous utterances
Darrell Royal
As long as a person doesn’t admit he is defeated, he is not defeated — he’s just a little behind and isn’t through fighting.
Passage from Life of Christ
Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery…