Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice.

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man’s independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a...

Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is...

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or...

Woman’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of conscience growth. We have failed to understand that individual evolution can...

Elaine: He saved my life twice. He’s the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises.Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please — don’t mistake it for a virtue.

Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire, and to pursue only...

Don’t be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until...

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.

Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.

The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered…it is not merely the vices...

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this...

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!” – The...

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who’s not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he’s a criminal, in a green costume he’s a hero who gets a parade and a...

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold,...

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence....

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

If this is vise I want no virtue….I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any...

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and...

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

Uma virtude deve ser nossa invenção, nossa defesa e nossa necessidade pessoais: tomada em qualquer outro sentido, não passa de um perigo. Aquilo que não é uma condição vital é prejudicial à vida: uma virtude...

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents’ small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at...

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that...

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first,...

Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with adversity, for...

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

Compassion is not a virtue — it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have — it’s something we choose to practice.