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

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

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?

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Let the path be open to talent.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

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

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

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.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?