You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who… — Laozi Copy Share Image
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image