Own Virtue Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and… — Baltasar Gracian
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know… — Al-Shafiâ€˜i
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more.… — Zhuangzi
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last… — Ayn Rand
The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word… — Saint Augustine
It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but… — John Cassian
For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world. — Thomas a Kempis
The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude. — Mencius
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. — Jawaharlal Nehru
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition — Philippa Gregory
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet
That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more… — Isaac Asimov

Who Wrote These Own Virtue Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Own Virtue Quotes as follows: