Virtue Quotes · Page 114

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

— John Ridley

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

— George Eliot

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

— Wendy Long

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

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats…

— Menander

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small…

— Aristotle

The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The…

— Yasmin Mogahed

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,…

— Richard Dawkins

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof…

— Philip Sidney

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and…

— Vincent de Paul

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will…

— Horace

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five…

— Sue Halpern

The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It…

— Henry Giroux

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace…

— Elie Wiesel

I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the…

— Murray Rothbard

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and…

— Edmund Burke

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea…

— Francis John McConnell

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are…

— Jonathan Haidt

How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back…

— Jon Lee Anderson

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,…

— Steve Martin

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through true honestydeeply believethat all sentient-beings are one.That all beings have the sametrue nature,wisdom,virtue.

— Gautama Buddha

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

“In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.”

— Robert Pack

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to…

— James Ussher

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

— Criss Jami

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.

— Laozi

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

— William Penn

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

— Brigit of Kildare

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

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

“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

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