Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Man is not made for defeat.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Before all else, be armed.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.