Virtue Quotes · Page 39

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

— Frances Wright

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

— Anonymous

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

— Marquis de Sade

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

— Anonymous

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished

— Nelson Mandela

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots…

— Antonin Artaud

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”

— Seneca

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

— Victor Hugo

Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of…

— Andre Gide

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

— Dalai Lama

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little…

— Michel de Montaigne

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will…

— Horace

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue…

— William Penn

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor…

— Tadeusz Borowski

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.…

— Robert Charles Wilson

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your…

— James E. Faust

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small…

— Aristotle

There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root…

— Zhuangzi

The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of…

— Christopher Dawson

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I…

— Robert Browning

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects…

— Samuel Johnson

Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra.…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the…

— Nicholas of Cusa

When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as…

— Pat Condell

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

— Paul Valery

Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

— Judith Martin

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

— Baruch Spinoza

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

— Benjamin Franklin

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

— Seneca the Younger