“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ. — Rod Rosenbladt Copy Share Image
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst. — Kabir Copy Share Image
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies… — Wang Yangming Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image