A Quote by Steven Pressfield

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Steven Pressfield

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Cardinal Contempt Failure Our Virtue

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Steven Pressfield
American - Author
Born: 1943

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

Robert K. Merton

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

James Hillman

Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

Martin Gardner

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

David Mitchell

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Elsie de Wolfe

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Peter Kreeft

Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

C. S. Lewis

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Joyce Meyer

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Dennis Potter

It's weird that I'm putting my old green and gold jersey, and I'm moving on to the cardinal and white. I'm a Stanford Cardinal.

Devon Cajuste

There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.

Ivan Turgenev

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Michel de Montaigne

I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.

James Carville

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