Virtue Quotes · Page 134

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great…

— Thomas Carlyle

Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise…

— Anonymous

“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any…

— Bertrand Russell

The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does…

— Saul Alinsky

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

— John Cassian

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

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become…

— Chico Xavier

There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue…

— Benjamin Rush

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

— Anonymous

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

— Izaak Walton

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Blushing is the color of virtue.

— Diogenes

“No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for…

— oscar wilde

Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,…

— Asher Peres

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

— Hermann Hesse

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who…

— Bill Maher

Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of…

— Alan Watts

“Every perfection in this life has some imperfection mixed with it and no learning of ours is without some darkness. Humble knowledge…

— Thomas à Kempis

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue,…

— Francis Quarles

Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved…

— George Eliot

The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man…

— Swami Vivekananda

I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to…

— Norman Mailer

Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their…

— Alexander Hamilton

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything…

— Anonymous

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

— Rollo May

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all…

— Adam Weishaupt

The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's…

— Margaret Thatcher

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

— Fernando Pessoa

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies…

— Edward Gibbon

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and…

— John C. Bogle

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may…

— Confucius

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm…

— John Milton

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim

— Billy Graham