Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Copy Share Image
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do… — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image