The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them. — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.” — Joseph Kerman Copy Share Image
The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space, — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
