Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades. — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted. — Eusebius Copy Share Image
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness — Shri Radhe Maa Copy Share Image
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. — Mencius Copy Share Image
I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the… — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato Copy Share Image
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I'm a grinder…I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
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