All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“God Himself is the rule and mode of virtue. Our faith is measured by divine truth, our hope by the greatness of… — St. Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass… — Andreas Libavius Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue;… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
“No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for… — oscar wilde Copy Share Image
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
