“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?” — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Your hand has two sides. Be cautious to open your palm to a person else it will reveal your deeds. — Khurshid Alam Copy Share Image
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld” — Gabriela Popa Copy Share Image
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. — Horace Copy Share Image
What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
