Virtue Quotes · Page 133

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part…

— John Adams

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;…

— Seneca the Younger

Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than…

— Kevin DeYoung

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues,…

— Phoebe Cary

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,…

— Corra May Harris

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and…

— Honore de Balzac

Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the…

— Liu Bei

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an…

— Benjamin Franklin

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement…

— D. Todd Christofferson

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of…

— Thaddeus Golas

Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of…

— Brian Christian

A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of…

— Herbert Marcuse

The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the…

— Thomas Jefferson

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want…

— Veronica Roth

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex,…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and…

— Aristotle

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being…

— Plato

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa…

— Sallust

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,…

— Benjamin Rush

“The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her…

— Jane Austen

I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard,…

— Jack Gleeson

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the…

— Eldar Djangirov

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of…

— El Lissitzky

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a…

— Saint Augustine

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave…

— Anonymous

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men…

— William Penn

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of…

— Tom Hiddleston

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after…

— Confucius

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season…

— William Shakespeare

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period…

— Aristotle

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who…

— William Gilmore Simms

Yes, I believe you can be right with God and still not like the way some people behave. Our admonition is to…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any…

— Plato

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People…

— Rutherford B. Hayes