Virtue Quotes · Page 92

“Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.”

— Raheel Farooq

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

— Teresa of Avila

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go…

— Susannah Cahalan

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

— John Milton

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

— Eliza Haywood

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

— Harry Shearer

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a…

— Max Beerbohm

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,…

— Edmund Burke

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most…

— Jean Racine

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation…

— Martin Buber

Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't…

— Doreen Virtue

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence…

— Henry Fielding

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity…

— Francis Bacon

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you…

— Bertrand Russell

But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should…

— Johannes Kepler

I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues…

— Kenneth Arrow

If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine…

— Henry Adams

I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,…

— Ursula Goodenough

The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would…

— Francis Grund

One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus…

— John Kleinig

Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve…

— Ela Bhatt

“The actions from which [virtue] was produced are also those in which it is exercised.”

— Aristotle

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

— Michael Drayton

“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”

— Julia Glass

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

— William Shakespeare

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

— Irving Babbitt

“The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

— Robert K. Merton

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

— George Orwell

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

— Anonymous

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only…

— Ira Gershwin

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

— Robert Vaughn

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

— Jonathan Swift

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

— John Milton

“Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu