#virtues

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#encourage #others #own #praise #their

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#commanders #equally #excel #fit #free

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#crown #idleness #vice #virtues

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers. ↗

— Tina Fey

#politics #professionalism #prostitution #virtues #dreams

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. ↗

— Doreen Valiente

#virtues #wicca #beauty

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. ↗

— William J Federer

#republic #rule #tyranny #tyrant #virtue

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#every #himself #least #suspects #virtues

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

#disaster #into #vices #virtues

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#belief #charity #christian #deep #especially

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

#burning #came #embrace #first #fully