Virtue Quotations | Page 3
Virtue Quotes from:
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Aristotle
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- William Shakespeare
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Confucius
- Benjamin Franklin
- John Milton
- Horace
- Henry David Thoreau
- Joseph Addison
- Michel De Montaigne
- Samuel Johnson
- Alexander Pope
- Edmund Burke
- Honore De Balzac
- John Adams
- Ambrose Bierce
- Juvenal
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Achieves Quotes
PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl."Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is --where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. --Sukker Uffro
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Earth Quotes
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
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Affirm Quotes
If this law is implemented, it will not only limit First Amendment rights for Michigan's residents, but, by virtue of its vagueness, it will also create a huge amount of confusion for Michigan's retailers, parents, and video game developers. I'm confident the court will affirm our position given the rulings on similar statutes in other jurisdictions; indeed, the facts, the science, the law, and the U.S. Constitution have not changed since those decisions were handed down.
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Business Quotes
I don't go around thinking I'm the third most powerful, ... First of all, if they made the list of the most powerful business people in America, I would not be on the list so it's by virtue of the fact there we're so few women perhaps that I could you know, reside right after Oprah on the list.