“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“May virtue and serenity belong to all, even my competitors and adversaries.” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises. Michael: Yes. It is a… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork… — William Bernard Ullathorne Copy Share Image
I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Believe me, Eugenie, the words "vice" and "virtue" supply us only with local meanings. There is no action, however bizarre you may… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“People love superheroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“17. He thought that thus fear would act as a curb on lust, and that lust being curbed would not run riot… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“❤️Kindness is a virtue that requires the least amount of effort and which can make the greatest profound difference throughout humanity!” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image