Virtue Quotes · Page 51

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

— Patrick Henry

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

— Voltaire

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

— Gertrude Stein

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

— Lord Byron

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

— John Herschel

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

— Kehinde Wiley

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.

— Rollo May

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to…

— Willa Cather

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

— B. Carroll Reece

He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

— Victor Hugo

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called…

— John Locke

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the…

— Horace

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star… His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in…

— Albert Camus

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

— Dick Cavett

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act…

— Barack Obama

Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust…

— Doreen Virtue

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to…

— John Climacus

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur…

— François Rabelais

Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the…

— Watchman Nee

I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the…

— Maya Angelou

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…

— Carroll Quigley

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld…

— Algernon Sidney

I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I…

— Heidi Julavits

“I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began. "And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of…

— Iain Pears

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

— Jonathan V. Last

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

— John Milton

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

— Theodore Hesburgh

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

— Ludwig Borne

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We tend to overlook only those vices that we also have.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My good intentions are completely lethal.

— Margaret Atwood