Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the… — Buddha Copy Share Image
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy.… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and… — Josephus Copy Share Image
“Goodness, beauty, truthfulness, honesty, and being virtuous are the essence of the world. Whatever happens, the world will one day find this… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles. — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
You can tell me anything, you can talk to me about everything. I'm not gonna budge, my heart remains whole, its upright.… — Travis Long Copy Share Image
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it.… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking… — Umera Ahmed Copy Share Image
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
