Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can… — Hasidic Copy Share Image
Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“After all, truth is not always a virtue when it is pursued for its own sake or, worse, simply to make its… — Josh Sundquist Copy Share Image
“There are not many people who work according to the law of virtue, but this small minority is the pride of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume 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
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when… — Catherine Weaver Copy Share Image
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image