It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And… — Moliere Copy Share Image
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — J. William Schickel Copy Share Image
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price… — Anonymous 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
“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue,… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue — Anonymous Copy Share Image
