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

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I’ve been very fortunate.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.