virtues

[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.

Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardeners is that one which, when the summer comes, will have the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit. The laborer cuts up the earth with his plough, and from that earth comes the rich and plentiful harvest. The more a man is chastened, the greater is the harvest of spiritual virtues shown forth by him.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

Your spirit knows your purpose launch yourself into a highest virtues from within.

The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation__ virtues, with the nation__ value system, determine the true wealth of that nation

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don__ just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation

For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.

You were kind.__azaril shrugged. __hy not? What could it cost me, after all?__ergon shook his head. __ny man can be kind when he is comfortable. I__ always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hear

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.