VACATIONS : No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

VALOR : The better part of valor is discretion. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

VALOR : Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

value : What you praise you increase. (Catherine Ponder: U.S. minister and founder of Unity Church Worldwide, Born 1927)

VALUES : A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

VALUES : Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

VALUES : If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

VALUES : Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

VALUES : My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.' (Tupac Shakur: U.S. musical artist who is widely considered one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, 1971-1996)

VALUES : Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (Unknown Source: )

VALUES : War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

VANDALS : If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. (Joseph W. Krutch: U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)

VANDALS : When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman. (Joseph W. Krutch: U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)

VANITY : Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. (Anne-Sophie Swetchine: Russian mystic, famous for her salon in Paris, 1782-1857)

VANITY : Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

VEGETARIANISM : A vegetarian is a bad hunter. (Unknown Source: )

VEGETARIANISM : I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. (Cesar Chavez: U.S. labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist, 1927-1993)

VEGETERIANISM : If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)

VICE : If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us. (Unknown Source: )

VICE : It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

VICE : Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

VICE : The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. (Thomas E. Brown: British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897)

VICE : The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. (Unknown Source: )

VICE : Vice stirs up war; virtue fights. (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

VICE : Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

VICE : When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

VICE : Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

VICE : You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it. (Unknown Source: )

VICIOUSNESS : Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. (Benjamin Spock: U.S. pediatrician and author, 1903-1998)

VICTORY : Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory. (Frederick W. Robertson: English theologian, 1816-1853)

VICTORY : No battle is ever won . . . and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

VICTORY : Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. (John-Paul Sartre: French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

VICTORY : The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

VICTORY : The victor belongs to the spoils. (Francis S. Key: U.S. lawyer, author, and amateur poet who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem , ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ 1896-1940)

VICTORY : There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

VICTORY : To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. (Pierre Corneille: French tragedian who is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine, 1606-1684)

VICTORY : Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

VIEWPOINT : Now that my house is burned down, I have a much better view of the moon. (Japanese Haiku: )

VIGOR : The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Christian Bovee: U.S. writer of aphorisms, 1820-1904)

VIOENCE : Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. (Mao Zedong: Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist, and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)

VIOLENCE : America—the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Richard Rayner: British author of both fiction and non-fiction books, Born 1955)

VIOLENCE : As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VIOLENCE : He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. (Latin Bible: In the Gospel of Matthew)

VIOLENCE : I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VIOLENCE : No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

VIOLENCE : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

VIOLENCE : Only when all other methods fail is it proper to hold the sword in hand. (Gobind Singh: Indian spiritual master, warrior, poet, philosopher. and leader of the Sikhs, Born 1666)

VIOLENCE : Other countries may think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956)

VIOLENCE : Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VIOLENCE : The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. (Unknown Source: )

VIOLENCE : There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. (Kingman Brewster: U.S. educator, president of Yale University, and diplomat, 1919-1988)

VIOLENCE : Violence is as American as cherry pie. (H. R. Brown: U.S. civil rights activist who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Born 1943)

VIOLENCE : Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

VIOLENCE : Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering. (Parker J. Palmer: U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939)

VIOLENCE : We must draw the critical connections between lives lost to intentional violent acts and lives lost to structural injustices—impoverishment and inequality—around the world. (Salih Booker: U.S. administrator of human rights organization, Born 1958)

VIOLENCE (U.S.A.) : America is the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Unknown Source: )

VIRTUE : Honor is the reward of virtue. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

VIRTUE : It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

VIRTUE : Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

VIRTUE : Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

VIRTUE : The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. (Unknown Source: )

VIRTUE : Vice stirs up war; virtue fights. (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

VIRTUE : Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

VIRTUE : Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

VISION : A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. (Unknown Source: )

VISION : Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. (Dorothea Brande: U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)

VISION : Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream. (Unknown Source: )

VISION : If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara: Indian-American attorney, Born 1968)

VISION : Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. (Alice M. Walker: U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)

VISION : The best vision is insight. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

VISION : The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

VISION : The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

VISION : The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

VISION : The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. (David S. Jordan: U.S. zoologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist, 1851-1931)

VISION : There are none so blind as those who will not see. (English proverb: )

VISION : Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

VISION : Vision without action is daydream; Action without vision is nightmare. (Japanese Proverb: )

VISION : Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Unknown Source: )

VISION : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

VISION : Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

VISIONARIES : Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen. (Robert Jarvik: U.S. scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur, known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 — an artificial heart, Born 1946)

VISITATIONS : Visits always give pleasure—if not the arrival, the departure. (Unknown Source: )

VISUALIZATION : Visualize, "prayerize," "actionize," and your wishes will come true. (Charles L. Allen: U.S. ordained United Methodist minister whose First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas became the largest Methodist congregation in the world at 12,000 members. 1913-2005)

VITALITY : He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan: U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter of "The Times They Are A-Changin,' Born 1941)

VITALITY : It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Richard Cumberland: English philosopher, and Bishop, 1631-1718)

VITALITY : Vitality show in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. (F. S. Fitzgerald: U.S. fiction writer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, 1896-1940)

VOCABULARY : Chickens lay eggs; humans lie down. (Unknown Source: )

VOICE : Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. (Nathaniel Hawthorne: English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)

VOICELESSNESS : There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard. (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

VOLITION : An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

VOLITION : Falling down is part of life; getting back up is living. (Jose N. Harris: U.S. neuropsychologist and family law mediator, Born 1962)

VOLITION : It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

VOLITION : Knock the "t" off the "can't." (George Reeves: U.S. actor, best known for his television role as 'Superman', 1914-1959)

VOLITION : My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

VOLITION : The real difference between men is energy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

VOLITION : You must do things you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

VOLUNTEERISM : Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet. (Alice M. Walker: U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)

VOLUNTEERISM : Some people are committed to putting good energy into the universe. (Unknown Source: )

VOLUNTEERISM : The good we can do together surpasses the good we can do alone. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

VOTING : A man without a vote is a man without protection. (Lyndon B. Johnson: U.S. politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)

VOTING : A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. (O. Henry: U.S. short-story writer, 1862-1910)

VOTING : A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

VOTING : Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George J. Nathan: U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958)

VOTING : Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

VOTING : Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. (Franklin P. Adams: U.S. writer, famed for his wit and best known for his columns and as a radio panelist, 1881-1960)

VOTING : Everyone can hear you when you vote. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

VOTING : If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it. (Unknown Source: )

VOTING : Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot! (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

VOTING : The ballot is stronger than the bullet. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

VOTING : The followership has a responsibility for creating good leadership. (Unknown Source: )

VOTING : The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963))

VOTING : There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote. (David F. Wallace: U.S. novelist, essayist, and short -story writer, 1962-2008)

VOTING : Voting is a sacred sacrament. (Theodore Hesburgh: U.S. priest who served for 35 years as the president of the University of Notre Dame, 1917-2015)

VOTING (U.S.A.) : A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. (Bill Vaughan: U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

VOTING (U.S.A.) : Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

VOTING (U.S.A.) : I vote because if you aren’t at the table, you are on the menu. (Ann Richards: U.S. politician and governor of the state of Texas, 1933-2006)

VOTING (U.S.A.) : One man, one vote! (John Lewis: U.S. civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Georgia, 1940-2020)

VOUCHERS : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but a democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas. (Richard D. Kahlenberg: U.S. scholar and advocate of the economic integration movement in K-12 schooling, Born 1963)

VOWS : In addition to marriage vows, vows before becoming parents should be established between partners. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019)

VULNERABILITY : A small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

VULNERABILITY : Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

VULNERABILITY : For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

VULNERABILITY : He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

VULNERABILITY : Men have become the tools of their tools. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

VULNERABILITY : No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

VULNERABILITY : Ships are but boards, sailors but men. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

VULNERABILITY : Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

VULNERABILITY : The ripest fruit first falls. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

VULNERABILITY : Trouble will rain on those who are already wet. (Unknown Source: )

VULNERABILITY : Vulnerability is not weakness, but our most accurate measure of courage. It is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)