“Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The perfecting of God's mercies to us must be waited for in a humble observance of his institutions.” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war. — Kirby Page Copy Share Image
To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children,… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Be dead in life, and you will not live in death. Let your soul die strenuously, and not live in weakness. Not… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ.… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Religious Observance, does not mean: You attend services and then sit back and watch the world pass you by, ¦ In the… — John Rokas Copy Share Image
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. — Alfred Edersheim Copy Share Image
There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“To me, everyday is an observance of a 'holy day' for 'this is the day the Lord has made' and as such… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image