Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William ShakespeareGod is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
Isaac NewtonIn Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.
Marilyn MonroeModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliNatural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus AureliusTo an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George OrwellTo 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.
BuddhaMan seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander PopePatriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar WildeGreat indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich NietzscheMan is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
George WashingtonU2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BonoModeration is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry KissingerA man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert SchweitzerThe human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Jeff BezosWe cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Niccolo MachiavelliHe who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
ConfuciusPeace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch SpinozaI believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund HillaryI have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BonoOf all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleStrength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David HareVirtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard ShawSuccessful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob DylanMoral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
AristotleYou can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.
Robert KiyosakiAll the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PlatoAs far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert EinsteinVirtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
BuddhaRecommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van BeethovenWe all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
Beyonce KnowlesAllah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad AliGlory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Marcus Tullius CiceroExceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
William ShakespeareHe is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VoltaireThe natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard ShawThe eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PlatoVirtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander PopeWe, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack ObamaPeople who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas SowellWith Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
Abraham LincolnThe word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Isaac NewtonIf one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
ChanakyaBlushing is the color of virtue.
DiogenesThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch SpinozaCharity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar WildeOf all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis BaconCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
AristotleModesty is the color of virtue.
DiogenesIf you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus ChristThere is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
ChanakyaSocialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillThe human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. KennedyDependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonOh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
Pope FrancisModesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison