Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
On the information technology side, health care is still behind other industries. There needs to be a real push to create better… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Faith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the… — Umar Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hypocrites act by virtue… They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face… — Yi Sun-sin Copy Share Image
I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
