Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“Sabine gave a Scoff. " I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be." In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have… — John Locke Copy Share Image
When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori… — Horace Copy Share Image
Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly… — Harold Perrineau Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
True virtue, when she errs, needs not the eyes of men to excite her blushes; she is confounded at her own presence,… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is… — Judas Iscariot Copy Share Image
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain… — Anchee Min Copy Share Image
I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved;… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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