Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues. — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents? — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The ideals of China's Communist government run completely contrary to the virtues we hold dear. They cannot be allowed to permeate our… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“The virtues of resourcefulness, self-composure, patience, hardiness, not to mention a sense of humour, were prized as highly as those of bravery,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
“Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfin’d; And clap your… — Anonymous 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
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
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves… — Stephen Covey 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
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
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
If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Little men,” he once said, “spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
