By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the… — Umar Copy Share Image
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His… — Kylie Bisutti Copy Share Image
A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves… — Philip D. Reed Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm,… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image