UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“Faith hath an incarnating virtue, as they say of some strengthening meat; it feeds upon the promise, and that ‘is perfect, converting’—or… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever… — Paul Elmer More Copy Share Image
Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread. — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind. — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
