He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The favorite method of vice is to diss all responsibility be work or social, go off by myself, and enjoy a good… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I've been standing up against what I call the 'virtue signalling' from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other misfortunes. His character was an admirable combination… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth. — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. — Confucius Copy Share Image
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice. — Mencius Copy Share Image
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
