Virtues @ Work
All Virtues

Cheerfulness
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Brendan Steven
Chief Writer
UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
“I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.”
Laurence Sterne

Industriousness
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Peter Copeland
Director of Policy & Stakeholder Relations
Ontario’s Solicitor General
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.”
Charles Spurgeon
“To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle as well.”
Henry Ward Beecher

Temperance
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David Marshall
Advisory, Consulting
JKM Financial Corp
“Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.”
Gautama Buddha
“The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.”
Agnes Repplier