True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility. — Tom Hiddleston 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
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Good fortune almost always makes some change in a man's behavior - in his manner of speaking and acting. It is a… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I've been standing up against what I call the 'virtue signalling' from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
