Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. — Theodor Billroth Copy Share Image
“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it . — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I hope our granddaughters and grandsons grow up knowing that they are not and have never been third-party observers of the priesthood.… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
Whistleblowing constitutes a nice test case for the evaluation of loyalty. Loyalty also appears at the intersection of many major philosophical debates:… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've found great virtue in two-thirds of the way into the message; right before I'm really want to nail home a point,… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.” — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it. — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
“One who calls virtue into being is one who has what it takes to make a success.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do… — Doctor Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
