Virtue Quotes · Page 112

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

— Euripides

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can not get the best of life, getting the best of your life, that is a virtue

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

— Chanakya

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

— A.J. Cronin

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

Virtue, but still get the same paths, we have forgotten to take it on the eye

— Mak_786

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and…

— David Hume

“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue…

— Andrew Murray

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the…

— Aristotle

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean…

— Fatty Arbuckle

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of…

— Sissela Bok

The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex…

— David Horowitz

There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in…

— Samuel Johnson

“What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God…

— Donald Spoto

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their…

— Mencius

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know…

— Joseph Pulitzer

The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced…

— Harold Rosenberg

When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me…

— Kevin Hart

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted…

— Margaret Atwood

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices,…

— Alex Beecroft

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

— Simon Bolivar

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

— David Hare

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

— Sun Tzu

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

— Emile M. Cioran

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

— George Mason

“You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd…

— William Shakespeare

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”

— John Adams

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

— William Ames

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

“Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser”

— Tim Willocks

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

— Juvenal