Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying historturer but not of keeping his… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, but now, facing the cross… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you live the virtues - when you live in that place of God-consciousness - all these rules we have about cause… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.” — Victor Bello Accioly Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues:… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning… — Confucius Copy Share Image
For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His… — Kylie Bisutti Copy Share Image
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
![“[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day…” quote by Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb9/gretchen-rubin-867_character_benjamin-franklin-identified-thirteen-vi_1250862.png)
![“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn’t peace, but freedom.” quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/515/nassim-nicholas-taleb-352_character_that-in-the-midst-of-murders-and-civil-w_1690483.png)
![“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.” quote by Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3ae/edward-abbey-254_character_i-t-is-the-writer-s-duty-to-write-fictio_2428868.jpg)
