Virtue Quotes · Page 69

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

— Simon Bolivar

“They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices,…

— Alex Beecroft

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

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

— Sun Tzu

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

— Emile M. Cioran

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

— David Hare

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of…

— Epictetus

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek…

— Albert Pike

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from…

— Anthony Kiedis

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies…

— Charles Brockden Brown

Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into…

— Marcus Eremita

I have sought for something in this world beyond the pleasures both of virtue and of senses...I can assure you that at…

— Mika Waltari

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems…

— Steve Martin

The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first…

— Thomas G. West

[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave…

— Alan Keyes

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less…

— Edward Gibbon

Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you…

— Rajneesh

Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to…

— Swami Vivekananda

We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect…

— Philip Neri

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend…

— John Hancock

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

— William Ames

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”

— John Adams

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

— George Mason

“You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd…

— William Shakespeare

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;”

— Molière

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

— Ayn Rand

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.

— Blaise Pascal

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

— Hilda Scott

“And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?”

— John Milton

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

— George Bernard Shaw

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

— Josh Billings

“And yet by nature the servants are born free; for no man is by nature a slave.”

— Philo of Alexandria