Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. — Horace Copy Share Image
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
“Live a life of virtue. Remember, yesterday you were not here, tomorrow you won’t be here.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more… — Mike Aquilina Copy Share Image
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I have come to light the lamp of Love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
