Virtue Quotes · Page 85

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all…

— Martin Luther

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

— Confucius

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

— Henry David Thoreau

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

— Finley Peter Dunne

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

— Owen Feltham

The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on…

— Walter Lippmann

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make…

— Laurence Sterne

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to…

— Peter Kreeft

“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love…

— Ovid

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men…

— John Milton

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Throughout my life, until this very moment, whatever virtue I have accomplished, including any benefit that may come from this book, I…

— Pema Chödrön

Of all the creations of the Almighty, there is none more beautiful, none more inspiring than a lovely daughter of God who…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,…

— Socrates

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by…

— Ronnie Dunn

Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of…

— Boyd K. Packer

“If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we…

— Thomas à Kempis

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to…

— Richard Holloway

“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate…

— Boethius

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Self-study, self-exploration, self-empowerment these are the virtues of a great education.

— Suman Rai

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

— William S. Burroughs

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

— Horace

To Love God Is The Greatest Virtue; To Loved By God Is The Greatest Of Blessings...

— Anonymous

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

— Dick Cheney

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

— Gautama Buddha

“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

— Daniel Pennac

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better…

— George William Curtis

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

— Margaret of Valois

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

— Mason Cooley

“Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time than someone else”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

— Edward Abbey