... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
“every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.” — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is… — Guru Angad Copy Share Image
“It has been said that when we pray, we speak to God; when we read, He speaks to us. Keeping this in… — William A. Carroll Copy Share Image
“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he… — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, “it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another… — Thomas Gold Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
