Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock 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
“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue,… — Amanda Quick 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
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope,… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a form or expertise or skill, the knowledge of how to live well in every way which shapes the whole… — Patrick Ussher Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and… — Peter Kreeft 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
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education… — Adam Braun 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
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Live your life at your own will.Not caring what other expects from you.Strive to prove your virtue & prove yourself better than… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance… — John Milton Copy Share Image
![“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.’ I cannot presume to write on behalf of…” quote by Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/01a/shashi-tharoor-2698_british-empire_w-hen-we-kill-people-a-british-sea-capta_1208063.jpg)
