Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine… — John Selden Copy Share Image
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free – on the fringe – as if it's some kind… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
