Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless. — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Human hypocrisy should be respected as virtue is not worth the effort.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Virtus Junxit Mors Non Separabit (Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate)” — The Scottish Rite Fourteenth degree Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual… — William Ames Copy Share Image
I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said :… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as… — Clare Wright Copy Share Image
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.” — Terry Darlington Copy Share Image
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“A real relationship of a man and wife is a ground on the roots of virtue and honour.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
