Virtue Quotes · Page 87

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

— Socrates

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“❤️Kindness is a virtue that requires the least amount of effort and which can make the greatest profound difference throughout humanity!”

— Timothy Pina

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

— Aristotle

“Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”

— William Butler Yeats

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

— Plato

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

— Mary Astell

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid.…

— Susan Sontag

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves…

— James Bovard

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they…

— Anonymous

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting…

— Chester W. Nimitz

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are…

— Moliere

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that…

— Anonymous

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend…

— John Hancock

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous,…

— Anonymous

“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and…

— Immanuel Kant

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,…

— Richard Rohr

Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize…

— William Shakespeare

Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.…

— Anonymous

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of…

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and…

— James Madison

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

— William Cowper

“May virtue and serenity belong to all, even my competitors and adversaries.”

— Lama Surya Das

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

— Baruch Spinoza

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

— Daniel Barenboim

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

— Jean Genet

“In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!" "Of course I do-it means your thong must be…

— Kresley Cole

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

— Quintilian

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme…

— Patricia Wentworth

“sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

— Morihei Ueshiba

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

— Henry George