Virtue Quotes · Page 75

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

— Myrtle Reed

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

— St. Catherine of Siena

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

— Luc de Clapiers

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

— Pope Gregory I

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

— Laozi

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

— Norman Thomas

Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for…

— Alexander Hamilton

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation…

— Thomas Paine

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful…

— Buddha

“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that…

— Joseph Addison

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and…

— Bertrand Russell

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more…

— Jerry Bridges

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland,…

— Hanna Rosin

“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,…

— Justin Martyr

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that…

— Charlie Munger

When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's…

— Doreen Virtue

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from…

— Socrates

“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his providence; that…

— Benjamin Franklin

Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds…

— Edmund Burke

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

— Tiger Woods

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

— Hildegard of Bingen

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

— George Bernard Shaw

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is…

— John Steinbeck

“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

— Herman Melville

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these…

— D. H. Lawrence

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch Spinoza

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

— Horace

Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear

— John Selden

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

— Anonymous

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

— Anonymous

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield…

— Quentin Crisp