The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power. — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.] — Horace Copy Share Image
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The beauty of modesty ... a virtue the world doesn't have much truck with: one ordinary flower in a vase, as opposed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue -… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation.… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,… — Asher Peres Copy Share Image
As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city. — Sam Waterston Copy Share Image