Great Virtue Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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Cheapness is a great virtue.
— Bill Bryson
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The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
— Michael Pollan
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Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was…
— Hugh Laurie
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The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.
— Paulo Coelho
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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
— Henry Bolingbroke
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It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
— Susan Wiggs
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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
— James Hilton
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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
— Andy Rooney
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The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
— John Fowles
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The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet…
— Milton Friedman
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through…
— Dada Vaswani
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
— Petrarch
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The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
— Milton Friedman
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability…
— Wang Yangming
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
— D. H. Lawrence
Who Wrote These Great Virtue Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Great Virtue Quotes as follows: