Virtue Quotes · Page 75

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

— Confucius

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

— Ted Malloch

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be…

— Horace

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

— Thomas Jefferson

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

— Susan Sontag

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

— Samuel Adams

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth,…

— Edward Gibbon

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of…

— Lord Chesterfield

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

— Dick Cavett

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act…

— Barack Obama

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star… His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in…

— Albert Camus

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the…

— Horace

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge,…

— Anonymous

“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.…

— Steven Pressfield

Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having…

— L. Neil Smith

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…

— Joan Didion

For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with…

— Linda Colley

“You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much…

— Louisa May Alcott

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it…

— James Madison

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made,…

— Noah Webster

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

— Andre Breton

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

— Richard N. Haass

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry…

— Aristotle

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

— Philip Sidney

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than…

— Margaret Deland

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of…

— Pope Agapetus I

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non…

— Seneca the Younger

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

— Alexander Pope

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure…

— Ayn Rand

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist…

— John Adams

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

— Augustus Hare

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

— Vanna Bonta

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

— Anonymous

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

— Confucius

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt…

— David Hume