Virtue Quotes · Page 143

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can…

— Woodrow Wilson

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink…

— Plato

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on…

— Hugh Laurie

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of…

— Anton Chekhov

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations…

— Ian McEwan

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly…

— Isabella Beeton

Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at…

— Beverly Lewis

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free – on the fringe – as if it's some kind…

— Andrew Scott

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

— Adam Weishaupt

To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,…

— Rajneesh

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children…

— Ronald Reagan

It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount…

— Mark E. Petersen

Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it…

— Barbara Holland

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now…

— Saint Francis de Sales

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce…

— Milton Friedman

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but…

— Aristotle

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom…

— Samuel Adams

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular…

— John Stuart Mill

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather…

— John Philip Sousa

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby…

— Hugh Laurie

Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty…

— Elizabeth Taylor

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight…

— Edmund Spenser

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher…

— Narendra Modi

All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other…

— Anonymous

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot…

— Willie Brown

“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,…

— David Bayles

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from…

— Jean Paul

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

— Larry Hurtado

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something…

— Kirk Douglas

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved…

— Edmund Spenser

“They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater…

— Abhijit Naskar

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately…

— Wendell Berry

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for…

— John Galt

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates…

— Voltaire

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley