In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at… — Beverly Lewis Copy Share Image
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
