Virtue Quotes · Page 68

While the trials extend and the pain increases, patience becomes your virtue.

— Andrew Cervantes

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

— Marquis de Sade

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

— Norman Thomas

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

— Laozi

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

— Pope Gregory I

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

— Tiger Woods

The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His…

— Kylie Bisutti

What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral…

— Edmund Burke

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact…

— John Cassian

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her…

— Sadao Araki

“How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains, Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains: That Men may say, when we…

— Alexander Pope

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life…

— Remy de Gourmont

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.…

— Nicolas Chamfort

As an actor, technically, when you are off a film, you are out of a job. An actor goes from job to…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,…

— Edward Gibbon

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other misfortunes. His character was an admirable combination…

— Marcus Aurelius

Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious…

— Barbara Amiel

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made…

— Margaret Mead

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

— Hildegard of Bingen

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds…

— Edmund Burke

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these…

— D. H. Lawrence

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

— Herman Melville

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

— George Bernard Shaw

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is…

— John Steinbeck

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

— Horace

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch Spinoza

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

— Anonymous

Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear

— John Selden

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield…

— Quentin Crisp

“Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.”

— Munindra Misra

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

— Anonymous