In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Humility is not an 'added extra,' one of the lesser Christian virtues. If you don't have humility, you may be lost. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
I would rather die then not be myself, because without being myself I already would have died. — Music Copy Share Image
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“A real relationship of a man and wife is a ground on the roots of virtue and honour.” — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
