“ He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ”
- Confucius- Copy
“ That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
“ The glue that holds all relationships together — including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity. ”
- Brian Tracy- Copy
“ Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ”
- Confucius- Copy
“ The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single. ”
- Charlotte Bingham- Copy
“ Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. ”
- Stephen Fry- Copy
“ Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
“ Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. ”
- Augustine J. Duganne- Copy
“ Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ”
- Adam Smith- Copy
“ There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
“ Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon. ”
- James Oliver- Copy
“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
“ I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- George Allen- Copy
“ If there's a power above us,(And that there is all nature cries aloudThrough all her works) he must delight in virtue. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
“ In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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