“Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.” SuccessOrderJusticeSilenceVirtueHumilityIndustryResolutionSincerityTranquilityModerationCleanlinessChastityThirteenTemperanceFrugalityTrue Success Author:Benjamin Franklin
“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.” MindMightMovingLawPassionJusticeBehindsAttitudeQualityFrontsHumilityHabitJudgmentCapableTrainingAreasCapacityCourtIndividualityIngredientsTemperamentDetachmentDominating Book:Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution
“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.” PeopleThinkingMindIdeasFormHumanityReligiousJusticePrinciplesSawsAliveDangerousHumilityTasteTruth IsElementsEternalHarmonyPhilosophicalConnectedOddConceptionRealisticMaximsTranscendentalLogosBrotherlyBrotherly LoveDeviateGreat Religious Author:Max Horkheimer
“What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.” HardSeemsJesusChristJusticeHumilityJesus ChristMercy Author:Steven Weber
“God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!” WorldLittlesJusticeHumilityFinePatriotism Author:Anton Chekhov
“The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.” MenMayLightGovernmentSpiritCultureWishHoursJusticePathHumilityProudDiversityGlorySocial JusticeForestsNativeRoughShedObscureGloomyAmerican GovernmentGreat Spirit Author:Black Hawk
“1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.” ThinkingUseBodyOrderJesusLosesJusticeSilenceFailingHumilityIndustryDrinkConversationWasteExtremesInjuryDeceitResolveResolutionSincerityTolerateTranquilityModerationDisturbedTriflesCleanlinessChastityTemperanceHurtfulElevationFrugalityTrifling Author:Benjamin Franklin