To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. — George Mason Copy Share Image
“You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames Copy Share Image
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: -… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God;… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
“The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing.… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving, — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts... — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can not get the best of life, getting the best of your life, that is a virtue — DrMohammed Abad Alrazak Copy Share Image
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Virtue, but still get the same paths, we have forgotten to take it on the eye — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
