This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.” — Tobin Wilson Copy Share Image
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. — John Vianney Copy Share Image
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out… — John Milton 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
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
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