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"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive." Thomas Jefferson 4.166666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure." Tacitus 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice." Carl Jung 3.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind." Kahlil Gibran 4.6923076923076925 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." James Michener 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr. 4.72972972972973 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle." Robert Alden 4.909090909090909 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous." C.S. Lewis 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." Albert Einstein 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life." Joseph Addison 3.3333333333333335 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!" Theodore Roosevelt 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves." C.S. Lewis 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." Abigail Van Buren 4.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing." Billy Graham 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." Adam Smith 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness." Reinhold Niebuhr 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Character is what you are in the dark." John Whorfin 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue." Daniel Webster 4.166666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." Will Rogers 3.375 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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