There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
"Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love the youth of the Church. I have said again and again that I think we have never had a better… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right… — Aristotle 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
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. — William Shakespeare 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
“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the… — Lokendra Singh Copy Share Image
Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
