Virtue Quotes · Page 108

“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.”

— Susan Andersen

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

— David Cottrell

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

“What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?”

— Darrin M. McMahon

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

— Josef Pieper

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Truth is not a science. Virtue is not a faith. Love is not a religion.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as…

— Jack McDevitt

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all…

— Bernard Bailyn

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact…

— John Cassian

What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral…

— Edmund Burke

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her…

— Sadao Araki

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue…

— Ida Tarbell

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and…

— Harriet Martineau

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,…

— Jonathan Swift

“For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common…

— Angela Carter

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right…

— Paul Kurtz

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The…

— Madeleine L'Engle

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although…

— Joan Didion

Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on…

— Paul Brunton

Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more…

— Thomas a Kempis

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

— Rumaan Alam

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

— Margaret Deland

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Live a life of virtue. Remember, yesterday you were not here, tomorrow you won’t be here.”

— Vinita Kinra

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

— Thomas M. Disch

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

— Horace

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

— Munira Mirza

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

— St. Catherine of Siena

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty…

— Elizabeth Taylor

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him…

— Aristotle

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring…

— William Gilmore Simms

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

— D. H. Lawrence

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

— John Frederick Boyes