This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Without courage you cant practice any virtue consistently.Courage is most important virtue by which you can attain any goal with consistency. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
“The other two are rich and noble; examples of virtue rarely make their home among people like that.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some… — Giles Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a system and men do heroic acts as part of the day's work and without self-consciousness.” — Charles H. Cooley Copy Share Image
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through… — Bernard Gilpin Copy Share Image
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm. — Colm Feore Copy Share Image
“Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.” — Thomas More Copy Share Image
