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I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage. — Lefty Gomez

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd

The reflections of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. Proverbs 16:1 — Beth Moore

A friendship with the Lord will sustain you in difficult times. — Elizabeth George

She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep. — W. Somerset Maugham

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. — Peter Jackson

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. — Baruch Spinoza

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers. — Stefan Molyneux

Theology is a superstition - Humanity a religion. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. — Gary Hopkins

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt

Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor. — J. William Fulbright

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us. — Bertrand Russell

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — Aristotle.

I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible. — Mahesh Babu

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. — Edward Bond

Love helps us hold each other up. - Kathleen Brown — Gary Chapman

It puzzles the will. — William Shakespeare

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith

If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. — Jane Smiley

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam. — Akhmad Kadyrov

I aspire to be useful. — Anthony Foxx

Had to stay human. Wolf couldn't drive the freaking car. Or hold the gun. — Carrie Vaughn

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. — Peter Kreeft