Virtue Quotes · Page 105

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

— Will Smith

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.”

— St. Ambrose

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

— Epictetus

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion.”

— Juliet Gael

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

— Saint Basil

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity…

— Pope Gregory VII

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend…

— Bari Weiss

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent…

— John Carroll

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites…

— Petrarch

To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and…

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This…

— Stephen Neill

When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf ('alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness -…

— Matthew Fox

“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou…

— Héloïse

We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes…

— George F. Richards

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come…

— Marcel Proust

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,…

— John Adams

Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In…

— Clayton Christensen

“When you put your energy, will and virtue into what you want, that is when your purpose will show life.”

— Zinny Ekechukwu

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

— Ayn Rand

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the…

— Anne Rice

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

— Confucius

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Benoît Peeters

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

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

— Nick Tosches

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

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Kate DiCamillo