Virtue Quotes · Page 121

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

— Josh Billings

“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.”

— Philo of Alexandria

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

— Shinichi Suzuki

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

— George Marsden

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

— Aristotle

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant…

— Thomas Goodwin

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love…

— Florence King

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation…

— Barry Goldwater

When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He…

— Sakyong Mipham

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and…

— Rollo May

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,…

— Aristotle

'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…

— Edward Gibbon

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting…

— Aristotle

Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of…

— Juvenal

What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even…

— John Adams

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and…

— Socrates

When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer…

— Marina Warner

To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of…

— Russell Kirk

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

— Simone Weil

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

— Daniel Gilbert

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

— Aristotle

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

— Socrates

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to…

— Chelsea Handler

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

— Confucius

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first…

— Charles Kingsley