The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There's something really interesting in the way you shy away from virtuous touch," he said. "I don't mind the virtue part. It's… — Frankie Rose Copy Share Image
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
“A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
...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
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“There are not many people who work according to the law of virtue, but this small minority is the pride of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
1 - 2 - 3 To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
