Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Being insincerely sincere to expect sincerity is the virtue, most of live with… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“ Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud which wraps… — John Raymond Howard Copy Share Image
“...for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the immediate source of all holiness. He is entirely sincere, and perfect in love. He is generous. He… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this… Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man was created with an aspiration for significance, which is a virtue. Man can pervert that drive into a lust for power,… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. — William Law Copy Share Image
Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the… — Arthur Dobrin Copy Share Image
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
“It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image