Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that… — Patrick Henry
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one,… — Aristotle
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which… — Aristotle
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor… — Aristotle
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral… — Aristotle
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's… — J. William Fulbright
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an… — Robert M. Pirsig
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… — Flannery O'Connor
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of… — Satchel Paige
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire. — Mark Twain
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women… — Germaine Greer
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
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu
The virtue of books is to be readable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland
This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today,… — Thomas S. Monson

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