Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. — Rich Karlgaard Copy Share Image
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
