Virtues Quotes

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
First Virtues Embrace Scene Came Burning Sanity Fully Unique Appreciate
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want. Jerry Saltz
Art Good News Money Will Good News Made Poverty Style Experiment Think Virtues Ruled Consistent Out Able About Emerging No-One Almost Since Like Got Lot Selling Brand Artists Want While Much Turning Creating Good Art Hardship
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. Jim Talent
People Circle Whatever Interview Virtues States Must Ability General Compromised Allies Had Make Within Dealing Go Commander His Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Represent Afghanistan Decisions Act Who Strategist United United States
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. John Jewel
Sad Life God Knowledge Word Virtues Correction Examples Counsel Come End Vices Full Grave
Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues. John Keegan
Military Virtues Admire Pacifist Should Even
In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people over the years. I still think communication is important, but I don't think there's always a correlation between being a great communicator and other virtues that make for a great leader. John Mackey
Best Great Communication People Job Leader Important Few Think Other Virtues Those Correlation Great Leader Between Over Make Talks Always Got Still Years Person Gets Being Communicator Who Companies Many
If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue? Jordan Peterson
You Virtues Punished Instead Continue Motivation Going Rewarded Them Then Your
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain. Jose Rizal
Words Beneficial Virtues Those Must Recommended Civic Above Uncertain Writings Written Study Come Likewise Redemption Without Repeat Reforms Which Gained Below
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers. Joseph Nye
Leadership Change Risks World Goals Change The World Virtues Alike Those Out Objectives More Tend Take Leaders Mere Managers Experts Public Modest Who Bold Downplay Whose Set
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. Juvenal
Our Virtues Most Frequently Disguised Vices
I am satisfied that our Party and youth league officials are devoting efforts to tending the garden of virtues with all sincerity true to the Party's idea of attaching importance to young people, and highly appreciate them with a warm heart. Kim Jong-un
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If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. Lawrence G. Lovasik
You Too Everybody Virtues Faults Charged Would Like Him His Person Credited
Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions. Lawrence Kohlberg
Great Integrity Honesty Great Deal Be True Goodness Virtues Definitions Disagreement True Over Also Although Deal May Controversy Little Notion Teaching Actual Consensus Vague
It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life. Lee Min-ho
Life Love Passion Sacrifice Real Life Difficult Virtues Purity Real Very May Keep
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends. Madhur Bhandarkar
Fashion Entertainment Law Hairstyle Become Films Virtues Trends Solely Drawn Abide Seeing Law-Abiding More Learnt Provide Very Than Inference Dutiful Influence Anyone After Meant Lessons Film
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. Malcolm Gladwell
Time Mind Consistency Changes Virtues Someone Most Overrated His Human Who
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. Martin Yan
Culture World Valuable Tremendously Virtues General Only Also Lot Chinese Chinese Culture Us
My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage. Marv Levy
Work Day Great Me Courage Father Example Virtues Lifelong His Personal Sam Displayed Honest
Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues. Merle Dandridge
Truth Kindness Living Virtues Authenticity Your Necessary
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something. Michael Wolff
Great You Business Stand For Something Difficult Great Business Virtues Enter High Something Had Stand Publishing
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts. Nagarjuna
Own Others Virtues Praise Encourage Efforts
DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening. Norman Finkelstein
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator. Paul Di Filippo
Creation Virtues Reckoned Circumstances Independent Must Critics Entities Generally Failures Least Intentions Want Fiction Regard Apart Works Even Creator Whose
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. Robert Gottlieb
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No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil. Roger Rosenblatt
Good Good And Evil Passion Evil Virtues Characters Kind Besides Memorable Shakespeare More Attached Writer Between Poles Least Senses Vices Created Even Helplessness Sympathetic
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. Sallust
Good Others Virtues Bad Prone Kings More Mistrust Always Than Afraid
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