It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. — Daniel Schacter Copy Share Image
We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue. — Lambert of Maastricht Copy Share Image
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
“there is no virtue in doing something for someone else when it’s something you also want to do. That’s merely being helpful,… — Ann B. Ross Copy Share Image
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another;… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus 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
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Men and women of integrity understand intrinsically that theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
