He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Dembele likes to take players on. He's a dribbler and a power player who likes to break into space; he has the… — Ernesto Valverde Copy Share Image
“If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed...the habits… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and… — Jose Rizal 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
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues -… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“All the time, circumstances are not going to favor us. We shall have to face obstacles and adversities. Fearlessness is the first… — Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar Copy Share Image
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues,… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless. — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
“Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. Four, speaking to Tris, regarding the virtues of factions.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“For all the virtues we profess, there is a savagery dormant in us waiting only for our fellow man to blink. It… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God;… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
