Virtue Quotes · Page 73

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance…

— Walter Kaufmann

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

— John Vanbrugh

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many…

— Honore de Balzac

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

— Thomas Jefferson

“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”

— Idries Shah

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

— Thomas Jefferson

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

— Gautama Buddha

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

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

— Aristotle

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Confucius

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

A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with…

— John Locke

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of…

— Plutarch

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English…

— John Steinbeck

The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him…

— Joseph Story

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John…

— Al Davis

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test…

— Ayn Rand

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to…

— James Ussher

“In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.”

— Robert Pack

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

— Criss Jami

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

— Laozi

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

— William Penn

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

— Brigit of Kildare

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

— Ben Jonson

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue;…

— Maria Edgeworth

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

— Horace

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right .”

— Brandon Sanderson

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer…

— Samuel Johnson

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

— Frances Wright

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

— Georges Bernanos

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

— Mario Puzo