What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. — James M. Barrie 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
All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we… — Sheri L. Dew 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
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot 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
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison Copy Share Image
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
To admit mistake is courage and virtue of strong character, while to rue and look for an excuse reflects weak personality. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
