Virtue Quotes · Page 118

“Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

— Veronica Roth

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

— Maximilien Robespierre

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”

— Voltaire

I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think…

— Charlie Munger

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no…

— Seneca the Younger

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great…

— Bertrand Russell

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive…

— Philip Sidney

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a…

— Isabel Allende

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and…

— Charles Kingsley

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can…

— Robert Jensen

“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from…

— Edward Abbey

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to…

— Samuel Johnson

The virtual community? The word virtual does not mean "virtue." It means "not." When I go to the store and they say:…

— Clifford Stoll

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and…

— Plautus

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his…

— Confucius

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

— William Ellery Channing

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

— Mark Heard

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also…

— Aristotle

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

— Walter Raleigh

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

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Josef Pieper

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

— Darrin M. McMahon

“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

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

— St. Catherine of Siena

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

— Munira Mirza

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

— Horace