The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing Copy Share Image
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.” — Travis Berketa Copy Share Image
“The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.” — Loraine Despres Copy Share Image
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Gardening is an excellent example of a practice to which, as Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, certain virtues are 'internal'. Good gardening requires… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill.… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if… — Paul Jacob Copy Share Image
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Remember, the left corrupts everything, folks. The Democrat Party, the left corrupts every institution. They politicize it, and by virtue of that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
