“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.” — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
To Love God Is The Greatest Virtue; To Loved By God Is The Greatest Of Blessings... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin;… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
![“[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/vincent-de-paul-1676_acquire_w-ork-at-ridding-yourself-of-the-esteem_3198020.png)
