A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.