Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
