Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
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
No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire. — Mark Twain 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
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. — Maya Angelou 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
Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. — William Butler Yeats 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
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius 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
“Human hypocrisy should be respected as virtue is not worth the effort.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
