Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues. — Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni Copy Share Image
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another… — Thomas Gold Copy Share Image
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.” — Jack B Nicholson Copy Share Image
“every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers… — Robert Ardrey 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
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
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
I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up… — Carlo Alban Copy Share Image
The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington Copy Share Image
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image