The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. — Jack Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable… — john steinbeck Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
I hope our granddaughters and grandsons grow up knowing that they are not and have never been third-party observers of the priesthood.… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
