“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
“You must love no-thingness, You must flee something, You must remain alone, And go to nobody. You must be very active And… — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share Image
I am not an atheist or a believer or even a satanist. What am I? I am just me with all my… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Let us then, by all means, be proud of the virtues that we have not got; but let us not be too… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“If you want your sins to be “covered” by the Lord (Ps. 32.1), do not parade your virtues before others. God will… — Thomas Mitrakos Copy Share Image
Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cant practice any other virtue consistently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image