Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
“The word "virtue" was once found in so many ancient quotes, yet now seems lost in our modern lives.” — Robert Colton Copy Share Image
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment. — John Gibbons Copy Share Image
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some… — Charles Bates Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Virtue does not consist in whether you face towards the East or the West; virtue means believing in God, the Last Day,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue — John Adams Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
“On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.” — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Courage is most important virtue, one is blessed with. It is the courage which makes you stand alone even in storm of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Trustworthiness is an innate virtue and you can't buy it with any price nor enforces or impose it. It has to come… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
