One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing… — Clive James Copy Share Image
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Baby, I can't say how the gods of virtue will judge you. But, I do know if I meet you again, in… — KM II Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
