Virtue Quotes · Page 76

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.”

— Lolly Daskal

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force…

— William Hazlitt

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

— Margaret Millar

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

— Peter Kreeft

“An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

— Pierre Corneille

Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust…

— Doreen Virtue

It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to…

— John Climacus

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and…

— Khalil Gibran

“  Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced   That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—   That oft the cloud which wraps…

— John Raymond Howard

“...for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory…

— John Milton

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our…

— Anonymous

War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if…

— Errol Morris

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,…

— Samuel Johnson

Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy…

— Tom Robbins

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement…

— Aristotle

Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more…

— Thomas a Kempis

I can understand that the man you told me about has offended you, and I am very annoyed that he forgot himself…

— Vincent de Paul

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,…

— Edward Gibbon

“Your favourite quality in a woman?: Thought. Your favourite virtue?: Faithfulness.”

— Benoît Peeters

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue…

— Anonymous

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

— Zig Ziglar

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

— Alister E. McGrath

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

— Anonymous

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare…

— Nick Tosches

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to…

— Thomas Malthus

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

— Kate DiCamillo

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

— Kenneth Grahame

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

— Lawrence Fertig

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

— George Sand

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

— Ambrose Bierce

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau