The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes… — Danielle Teller Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in… — Louis XVI of France Copy Share Image
“Bring things to life and nurture them, But have no thoughts of possession. Act without relying on anything; Bring things along, but… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life,… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is… — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut Copy Share Image
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are… — Moliere Copy Share Image
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
![“I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern…” quote by Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/gordon-b-hinckley-331_abuse_i-think-forgiveness-may-be-the-greatest_642724.png)
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