What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue...

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. ‘I LOVE’ could be virtuous or not – you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting...

Your stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears.

By the virtue of its thoroughness, the local application was successful,

Everything we do in life reflects through the virtues of a nation. For example if a nation is ruled through Fear, the Manifestation of War rises; If a nation is ruled through Love, War would...

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren’t the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more “natural”...

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English,...

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for “salvation.” And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul...

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player’s prowess is sorely mistaken. Just as mistaken as those who believe that IQ tests have anything to...

I have pondered on the causes of a life’s shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind’s quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend...

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

By virtue of the fact that we’re continuing to meet with them and talk with them is one indicator … that there are some things that are looking attractive to us as opportunities.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his...

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think…

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a...

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don’t feel like it), emotions (you are often overtaken by feelings of tenderness and...

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and...

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She’s earned it, it’s a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her...

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others....

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the...

Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child – let that be your word concerning virtue!

In monarchies, each man’s desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had...

The challenge for people today–and it is not and easy one–is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity – a virtuous woman.

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier’s career, and why should you give up?

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.