Virtue Quotes · Page 89

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

— Thomas Jefferson

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

— Vittorio Alfieri

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

— Andre Gide

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

— Emily Dickinson

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

— William Hazlitt

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

— Saadi

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,…

— Fanny Burney

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of…

— Quintilian

There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior…

— Catherine Wilson

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part…

— William Lyon Phelps

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help…

— Richelle Mead

The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it…

— Helen Keller

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises…

— Sam Keen

The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is…

— Paul F. M. Zahl

We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,…

— John Vianney

Were the talents and virtues, which Heaven has bestowed on men, given merely to make then more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed…

— Samuel Adams

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

— John Milton

“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

— Izaak Walton

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

— Stephen Vizinczey

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time…

— William Blake

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone…

— Peter Julian Eymard

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be…

— Don Herold

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

— George Sand

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by…

— Socrates

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

— George Washington

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky