Virtue Quotes · Page 68

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

— James Lee Burke

The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

— Amelia B. Edwards

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

— Paulo Coelho

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

— Anonymous

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly…

— Isabella Beeton

Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at…

— Beverly Lewis

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom…

— Samuel Adams

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free – on the fringe – as if it's some kind…

— Andrew Scott

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather…

— John Philip Sousa

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular…

— John Stuart Mill

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby…

— Hugh Laurie

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty…

— Elizabeth Taylor

In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate…

— Dale Jamieson

“Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken.…

— Eduardo Galeano

The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good…

— Charles Dickens

“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.…

— Patrick Mendis

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing… Thinking back on it all, it must have been the…

— Erma Bombeck

“Why should I choose to divide my ethics into four rather than six? Why should I define virtue as four, or two,…

— Blaise Pascal

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

— Ted Malloch

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be…

— Horace

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

— Richard N. Haass

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

— Andre Breton

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

— Thomas Jefferson

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

— Susan Sontag

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

— Samuel Adams

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of…

— Pope Agapetus I

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry…

— Aristotle

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

— Philip Sidney

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than…

— Margaret Deland

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non…

— Seneca the Younger

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

— Oliver Goldsmith