Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue… — James Henley Thornwell Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many… — Aristotle Copy Share Image