Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf ('alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Excellence is the quality of being outstanding. Excellence is ever-growing personal and collective best To excel is virtue of a person with… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring,… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — William James Copy Share Image
There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice"… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
