Virtue Quotes · Page 76

“A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and…

— Xi Jinping

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop…

— Jane Porter

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts…

— Sandra Scarr

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

— Laozi

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen…

— Ford Madox Ford

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices…

— William Law

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet…

— John Milton

“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I…

— George Washington

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

— Edmund Waller

. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order…

— Vincent de Paul

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

— Ayn Rand

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely…

— Aristotle

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice…

— John Tillotson

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

— J. William Fulbright

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road.

— Isaac Wright Jr

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of…

— Mark Twain

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give…

— Dalai Lama

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on…

— Saint John Chrysostom

He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination…

— Maximus the Confessor

[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

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue…

— Aristotle

But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

To accept mistake is virtue of courageous people.

— Anil Sinha

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that…

— Anna Quindlen

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he…

— Orson Scott Card

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

— M. Scott Peck

Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man…

— George Will

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury