Best achievement & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”

Art Quality Virtue Industry Achievement Art Is Evidence Productions Proof Footsteps Insufficient

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.”

Way Hard Virtue Wife Hard Work Achievement Ornaments Badges

Book:Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty

Source: Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty

“There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.”

Philosophy Virtue Limits Achievement Prosperity Contradiction Good Life

Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.”

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.”

Want Self Parent Virtue Violence Safe Disease Achievement Destruction Offspring Self Destruction

Author:Estelle Ramey

“Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”

Easy Half Virtue Ignorance Proud Citizens Achievement Intellectual Towns Artistic Dozen Dubious

Book:Main Street

Source: Main Street

“Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."”

Men World Reality Levels Virtue Humility Fame Achievement Independence Declaration Boast Franklin Declaration Of Independence Overachiever

Author:John Eliot

“The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”

World Needs Happens Freedom Race Consciousness Virtue Cry Achievement Islam Contemporary Islamic Extinction Outstanding Propagation

Book:Civilization on Trial

Source: Civilization on Trial

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”

Virtue Achievement Patience

Author:Vera Nazarian

“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth”

Men Mind Persons Earth Joy Values Fighting Knowing Virtue Pride Morality Battle Goodness Achievement Essence Absolutes Rational Certainty Sovereign Grandeur Radiant Rectitude

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.”

Men May Persons Important Real Character Action Virtue Battle Achievement Jokes Notes Vices Remarks Distinguished Casual Siege Real Character

Author:Plutarch

“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”

Knows Motivational Success Virtue Victory Achievement Defeat Oneself

Author:A.J. Cronin

“Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success”

Inspirational Opportunity Force Goal Virtue Achievement Command Persistence Daring Vigilance Tact Seizing

Author:Austin Phelps

“. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.”

Believe Humans May Children Hard Hands Political Difficult Cases Virtue Too Much Human Nature Kings Achievement Sovereign Succession Hard To Believe Hereditary

Author:Aristotle

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