Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.” — Annabel Lyon Copy Share Image
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love… — Douglas Bader Copy Share Image
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness is nothing… — Marquis de Sade 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
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen! — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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