Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one… — Anonymous 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
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts... — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — 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
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
