Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace. Grace is a little girl Who would not wash her face.” — Dick King-Smith Copy Share Image
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To be a person of high moral value inculcate virtue of transparency, integrity & honesty.Make yourself stand like rock,if demanding situation tries… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and… — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
