Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do… — Doctor Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth… — William Shirley Copy Share Image
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real'… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image