Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when… — Catherine Weaver Copy Share Image
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort. — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life,… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of… — John Bowring Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
