Virtue Quotes · Page 93

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it…

— Brooks Atkinson

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

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

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation…

— Keith Ferrazzi

Prestige podcasts, like prestige television shows, tend to have an audience that believes itself literate, well-informed, and reasonable. Listening to podcasts, in…

— Michelle Dean

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete…

— Aristotle

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from…

— Craig Brown

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

— Thomas Carlyle

If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that…

— Mitt Romney

Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is…

— John Maynard Keynes

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it…

— Charles Dickens

Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day…

— Betty MacDonald

The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and…

— Shirin Ebadi

The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can…

— Marjorie Garber

“It should not be claimed that there is no art or science of training up to virtue. Remember how absurd it would…

— John M Gregory

The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own…

— Sivananda

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

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

— Richard N. Haass

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

— Andre Breton

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

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

— Ted Malloch

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

— Confucius

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

— Anonymous

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

— David Hume

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

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

— Margaret Millar

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

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

— William Hazlitt

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