Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Everything that's coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it's attracted to you by virtue of the images… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It continues to defy explanation why liberals who theoretically love liberty, equality, tolerance and moderation, should find so much to despise in… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
