Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Will Self

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Billy Wagner

You have to be mentally 'there.' Your talent is there, but you have to be mentally there, too.

T.O. Sterrett

There's a lot of talent around, but sometimes talent can't find opportunity.

John Connolly

Norton-Knight is a very talented player. He's versatile. He did very well at the weekend.

Swen Nater

The talent is better but your teamwork is not.

Beth Jones

I've always thought she could do it. It's a big step, but the talent is there.

Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Billy Donovan

So much of it right now has nothing to do with the talent level. It has to do with their makeup. It has to do with what they're about.

Lee Smith

This is a win-win for the region. She has so much talent.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Bernard Meltzer

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Eliza Haywood

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue