Virtue Quotes · Page 83

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

— Thomas Jefferson

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

— John Milton

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

— Mario Puzo

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

— Georges Bernanos

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

— Frances Wright

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

— Samuel Johnson

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

— Thomas Aquinas

“On Virtue - Goodness is its own reward. It has to be; nothing else rewards it.”

— Marsha Hinds

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-…

— Lord Byron

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world…

— Miranda July

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it…

— Richard J. Foster

My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue -…

— Kurt Bills

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good…

— James Mackintosh

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is…

— Robert E. Lee

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will…

— Michel de Montaigne

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With…

— David Hawkins

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Herbert Marcuse

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

— Brian Christian

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

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

The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

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

— Maria Edgeworth

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

— Ben Jonson

“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

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

— Horace

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion.”

— Juliet Gael

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

“When you put your energy, will and virtue into what you want, that is when your purpose will show life.”

— Zinny Ekechukwu

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

— Ayn Rand

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the…

— Anne Rice

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

— Confucius

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

— Ambrose Bierce

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

— George Sand

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

— Lawrence Fertig

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

— Kenneth Grahame