“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patience and understanding are two rarest virtue humans could have today. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back. — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God. — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“To be strong and true had been the most important task he had set himself since early childhood. Once, as a boy,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue” — Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos Copy Share Image
For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.] — Horace Copy Share Image
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power. — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image