If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life. — Lee Min-ho Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.” — Xenophon Copy Share Image
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I am satisfied that our Party and youth league officials are devoting efforts to tending the garden of virtues with all sincerity… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A visit to the Rennes market, one of the finest I have seen in France, alone will convince you of the virtues… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful.… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“You will live in a world of responsible beings, who will be as consistent and reliable as facts; the guarantee of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think… — Sir Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It’s no more than a fact and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The Supreme Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of the scriptures,… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
