Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 371 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.~ William Faulkner In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.~ Geoffrey Fisher If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.~ Larry Flynt How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.~ Anne Frank Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many; for, as the almanac says, in the affairs of this world men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it; but a man's own care is profitable; for, saith Poor Dick, learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and Heaven to the virtuous.~ Benjamin Franklin Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.~ Benjamin Franklin Moderation in all things -- including moderation.~ Benjamin Franklin As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.~ Benjamin Franklin Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.~ Milton Friedman To deny freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.~ James Anthony Froude Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.~ Don Galer To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?~ William Lloyd Garrison It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.~ Henry George The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.~ Elbridge Gerry The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.~ Edward Gibbon The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.~ Khalil Gibran Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print