Virtue Quotes · Page 82

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

— Chanakya

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

— Jeremy Taylor

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

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

— Ludwig Feuerbach

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose…

— Thomas Hood

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience…

— E. O. Wilson

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for…

— Marcel Achard

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved;…

— John Hancock

I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them,…

— Gertrude Stein

I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue,…

— Richard Branson

I hope our granddaughters and grandsons grow up knowing that they are not and have never been third-party observers of the priesthood.…

— Julie B. Beck

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it…

— Freya Stark

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for…

— Whitney M. Young

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should…

— Samuel Johnson

It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the…

— Denis Diderot

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not…

— Herbert Marcuse

Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly…

— Russell Kirk

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

— Confucius

“The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

— Isaac Barrow

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Niki Lauda

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

— Duke Ellington

“An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

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

— Horace

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

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

— Josh Billings

Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

— Jerry Mander

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

— Rudolf Flesch

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

— Giovanni Boccaccio