Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.” — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in… — Edward Hooker Dewey Copy Share Image
“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Tolkien understands the odd danger posed by virtue cut off from the Good. Over and again, he demonstrates his fundamental conviction that… — Ralph C. Wood Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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