Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!” — Diogenes Laërtius Copy Share Image
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear… — Chris Heimerdinger Copy Share Image
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Forgive me this my virtue; For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg- Yea, curb… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there… — St. Paul Copy Share Image
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“[I]t's not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It's not enough to be logical. You have to… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.” — Mel Starr Copy Share Image
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?” — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image