"We are made kind by being kind."

Virtue, Kindness, Humanity, Compassion, Behavior

18

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Virtue quotes

"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Virtue, Learning, Imitation, Authenticity

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Virtue,

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Virtue, Happiness, Life, Progress

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Virtue, Energy, Vice

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Faith, Wisdom, Love, Boldness

"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Kindness, Politeness, Respect, Humility

"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Grace, Gratitude, Generosity, Life

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Virtue, Evil, Wisdom, Love, God

"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Virtue, Goodness, Action, Character

"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Virtue, Abstinence, Discipline, Choice, Balance

Explore more quotes by Eric Hoffer

"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

People

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."

Power

"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

Power

"Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal."

Spiritual

"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

Quality

"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."

People

"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage."

Courage

"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

Sociology

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

Thought

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

Learning