Virtue Quotes · Page 73

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

— Duke Ellington

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.

— Niki Lauda

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other…

— Chanakya

“Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Love recognises virtue even in sin, truth in error. … [L]ove is free, universal, in its nature[.]”

— Ludwig Feuerbach

When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be…

— Karl Mannheim

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small…

— Anonymous

Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker,…

— Colby Tatem

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men…

— Oscar Wilde

In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol.…

— Stewart Butterfield

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of…

— John Bowring

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults…

— William Shakespeare

The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a…

— Edward Gibbon

Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I…

— Zooey Deschanel

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the…

— George Washington

In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to…

— John McCain

The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in…

— Charles Churchill

I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.…

— Anonymous

“Tolkien understands the odd danger posed by virtue cut off from the Good. Over and again, he demonstrates his fundamental conviction that…

— Ralph C. Wood

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…

— Bertrand Russell

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

— William Shakespeare

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make…

— Samuel Johnson

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

— Daniel Defoe

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must…

— William J Federer

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

— Angela of Foligno

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

— Immanuel Kant

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for…

— Margaret Drabble

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

— Nicole Kidman

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

— Jimmy Carter

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

— Joseph Addison

Being just is virtue of humility.It reflects high self esteem, transparency & modesty.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

— Horace

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

— Walter Scott

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

— Sarada Devi