There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence… — Jason Hartman Copy Share Image
“The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is much that is difficult and challenging in the world today, my brothers and sisters, but there is also much that… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step. — Mary N. Cook Copy Share Image
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
That virtuous person who does not walk in the way of greed, and who abides in Truth, is accepted and famous. — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
“It is said a virtuous woman is worth more than rubies. But I believe many men discover the hard way that virtue,… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them,… — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous… — David Rees Copy Share Image
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
