A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- Topic: Desire, Virtue
- Location: California, Napa Valley
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Moral virtue is the child of habit.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
