I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be… — Horace Copy Share Image
“If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . .… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
Loyalty saves us from the self-advantaging compromising of important relations - such as friendship, marital and professional commitments, group memberships, and so… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant 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
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other… — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
