Virtue Quotes · Page 118

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given thee the power of flight without wings.”

— The Koran

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about…

— Baal Shem Tov

I'm a king without a crown, a scream without a sound, a master of disaster, and the sin to all religion... Always…

— Jamie Timbre

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage

— Anonymous

“Truth cannot hide from virtue; virtue cannot hide from love; love cannot hide from God; and God cannot hide from truth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

— Michel de Montaigne

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it…

— Bertrand Russell

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Trey scoffed. "Between you and me, Brayden's probably the last guy in the world you have to worry about. I think he's…

— Richelle Mead

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our…

— Herodotus

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,…

— William Cowper

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better…

— John Adams

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of…

— Edmund Burke

Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of…

— Jane Porter

Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that…

— Brennan Manning

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of…

— Thomas Browne

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service…

— Angela Carter

It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the…

— Mark E. Petersen

There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation…

— John Quincy Adams

Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“For know that this is the command of God; and I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state…

— Plato

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

— John Ridley

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

— Wendy Long

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

“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

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

— Veronica Roth

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

— Joseph Addison

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

— Elizabeth I

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson