Virtue Quotes · Page 30

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.…

— Sophie Swetchine

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that…

— Frances Wright

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

— Plato

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

— Laozi

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,…

— Marcus Aurelius

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

— David O. McKay

He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of…

— R. C. Sproul

You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.

— Saadi

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

— William Hazlitt

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into…

— John Jay Chapman

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

— Voltaire

This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was…

— Richard Coles

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

— George Will

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man…

— George Washington

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought…

— Benjamin Franklin

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

— Lauren Willig

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

— Norm MacDonald

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

— Petrarch

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the…

— George Washington

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home…

— Terry Pratchett

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

— Paulo Coelho