Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the… — Elie Wiesel
Compassion is not a popular virtue — Karen Armstrong
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests… — Alexander Hamilton
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts… — Thomas Jefferson
Virtue is its own revenge. — Yip Harburg
If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We… — Simonides of Ceos
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots,… — John Milton
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears.… — Rajneesh
Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue… — Seneca the Younger
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake
Kindness is virtue itself. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order… — David Steindl-Rast
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than… — Edgar Cayce
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful… — Alexander Hamilton
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example… — Alexander Hamilton
Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me — Confucius
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as… — Khalil Gibran
'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity… — Edward Gibbon
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. — Saint John Chrysostom
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. — Emile M. Cioran
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in… — Ray Allen
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his… — Therese of Lisieux
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid… — Walter Mason Camp

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