Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents,… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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