Virtue Quotes
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Virtue Quotes & Sayings
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If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
— Owen Feltham
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
No more can the reader hope to learn virtue merely by reading this book - unless, of course, it is so boring as to demand perseverance!
— Dalai Lama XIV
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.
— James Murray Mason
Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
— Joseph Joubert
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
— William, Saroyan
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
— Neal Stephenson
Virtue is the health of the soul,
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues.
— Herman Melville
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
— Indira Gandhi
Each partof speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ... — Denise Levertov
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
— G.K. Chesterton
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A Godly mother's seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.
— Karen Armstrong
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
— Boris Pasternak
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
— John Tillotson
I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
— Helen Keller
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.
— William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
— Margaret Of Valois
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
— Iain Pears
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
— Judith Martin
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
— John Steinbeck
Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
— G.K. Chesterton
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
— Cato The Younger
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.
— Joseph Butler
Tolerance is the last virtue of a man without principle.
— G.K. Chesterton
Disobedience is man's original virtue.
— Oscar Wilde
It would be so much easier if I weren't determined to do what's best for everybody. Whoever said virtue was its own reward was full of crap.
— Orson Scott Card
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A woman mixed of such fine elementsThat were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was. — George Eliot
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
— Michael Kinsley
A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.
— Michael Bassey
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
— Samuel Johnson
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
— Charles Baudelaire
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
— Dante Alighieri
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
— Erwin Schrodinger
For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
— H. Rider Haggard
Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.
— Moira Young
Male philosophers coin phrases 'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them. — Mary Jo Weaver
The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
— Ryan Phillippe
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
— Don Marquis
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
— Publilius Syrus
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
If a man took a lover it would be accounted commonplace. Why shouldn't you? Your virtue lies in your mind, not in what lies between your legs.
— Lauren Willig
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
— Luc De Clapiers
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Perfect Liberty follows no rules, law, or any virtue for that matter. It disregards respect, courteousness, and love.
— Veronica Mist
Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
— James Russell Lowell
Why grace was disparaged and redemption faced judgment? Why vice was rewarded and virtue punished?
— Nandini Sahu
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocencean exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
— Herman Melville
Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
— Aunguttara Nikaya
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.
— N. T. Wright
By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.
— Peter Heather
But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.
— Ayn Rand
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.
— Seraphim Of Sarov
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
— James Anthony Froude
The neuroses parody the virtues.
— Mason Cooley
Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.
— Garth Nix