Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Cling to the One who clings to nothing; And so clinging, cease to cling.” — Tiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue! — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Stranger, what e’er thy land or creed or race, Here rest awhile, there’s virtue in the place.” - Anonymous A” — Sigrid Vansandt Copy Share Image
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've been deeply influenced by Aristotle's idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece… — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve… — Matsumura Sokon Copy Share Image
Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows… — Horace Copy Share Image
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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