To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 8
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton English Writer More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes 5
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 4
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato Greek Philosopher More Plato Quotes 4
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Joseph Addison English Writer More Joseph Addison Quotes 4
Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 3
Virtue can only flourish among equals. Mary Wollstonecraft British Writer More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes 3
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou American Poet More Maya Angelou Quotes 2
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. Marquis de Sade French Novelist More Marquis de Sade Quotes 1
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 1
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. Joseph Pulitzer American Publisher More Joseph Pulitzer Quotes 1
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Ezra Pound American Poet More Ezra Pound Quotes 1
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. Simone Weil French Philosopher More Simone Weil Quotes 1
The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist More George Bernard Shaw Quotes 1
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. Edwin Louis Cole American Author More Edwin Louis Cole Quotes 1
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha Leader More Buddha Quotes 1
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. G. K. Chesterton English Critic More G. K. Chesterton Quotes 1
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch. Rudyard Kipling English More Rudyard Kipling Quotes 1
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza Philosopher More Baruch Spinoza Quotes 1
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. Baruch Spinoza Philosopher More Baruch Spinoza Quotes 0
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. Baruch Spinoza Philosopher More Baruch Spinoza Quotes 0
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Baruch Spinoza Philosopher More Baruch Spinoza Quotes 0
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon British Clergyman More Charles Spurgeon Quotes 0