The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked,… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Brave people don't hurt others. They take every pain in their stride. Forgiveness is their virtue. They neither hold anger or prejudice… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry,… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She” — Christine Wiltz Copy Share Image
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. — Confucius Copy Share Image
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
