“Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.” — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
The greatest virtue that one should try to cultivate is the habit of self-reliance. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing.… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image