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
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a priest, kindness is a bishop, faith is a pope, and love is a religion.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity. — Martin Seligman 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
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and… — Lynn G. Robbins Copy Share Image
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves… — John Morley Copy Share Image
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence.… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. — Philo Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I am 21 years old and I still don't understand the concept of patience being a virtue... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice. — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue — William Penn Copy Share Image
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
