Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons Copy Share Image
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful. — Duc De La Rochefoucals Copy Share Image
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately.… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government,… — Jesse Taylor Copy Share Image
Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past. — Richard Overy Copy Share Image
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and… — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a… — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in… — Edward Hooker Dewey Copy Share Image
“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together, — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
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