Virtue Quotes · Page 109

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

— Hermann Hesse

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

— Anonymous

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor

“Love recognises virtue even in sin, truth in error. … [L]ove is free, universal, in its nature[.]”

— Ludwig Feuerbach

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other…

— Chanakya

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the…

— Allan Pinkerton

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex…

— Horace

“That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is…

— Jane Austen

Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is…

— Theodore Hesburgh

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

— Abigail Adams

It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual, regardless of gender, race,…

— Tennys Sandgren

You may wear your virtues as a crown, As you walk through life serenely, And grace your simple rustic gown With a…

— Phoebe Cary

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular…

— William James

Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right…

— Aristotle

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us…

— Christopher Hitchens

I can push myself and you can push yourself, but competing, we push ourselves a little farther and we bring out our…

— Po Bronson

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,…

— Catherine Wilson

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even…

— Saint Basil

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism;…

— Anonymous

Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which…

— Hilary Kornblith

“An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

— Duke Ellington

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.

— Niki Lauda

“Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

— Confucius

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

— Isaac Barrow

“The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

— Giovanni Boccaccio

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers…

— Edward Gibbon

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

— Sarada Devi

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

— Walter Scott

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

— Jerry Mander