Best leadership & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility”

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Author:John McCain

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.”

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