Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not… — David E. Sorensen
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken… — Paul Elmer More
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. — Sophia Loren
If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves;… — Ching Hai
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically… — Unknown Author
Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. — Theodor Billroth
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner… — John Quincy Adams
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge. — Al-Ghazali
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How… — Ibn Hazm
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the adversity is not… — Unknown Author
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — Unknown Author
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong. — Chuck Noll
The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue. — Deacon Jones
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth
I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy… — Charles Brockden Brown
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and… — Lord Chesterfield
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. — Mark Twain
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. — William Shenstone
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. — Mark Twain
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it… — Aristotle

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