Virtue Quotes · Page 102

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

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

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

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

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

— John Milton

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was…

— Thomas Moore

I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This…

— John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if…

— Christopher Fry

The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of…

— Berenice Abbott

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but…

— Andrew Murray

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you…

— Diane Duane

Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as…

— Paul Pruyser

But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises…

— Sam Keen

The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is…

— Paul F. M. Zahl

Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed…

— Samuel Adams

We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,…

— John Vianney

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

“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

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

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

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

— William Shenstone

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

— Daniel Berrigan

“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

— Henry Bolingbroke

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

— Philip Massinger

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

— Maya Angelou

“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear…

— Chris Heimerdinger

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith