Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these… — Austin Phelps
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. — Elbridge Gerry
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To… — William Shakespeare
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates. — Kenneth Arrow
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. — Lyman Abbott
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If… — Anthony Mary Claret
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been… — Adolf Hitler
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth… — Mary McCarthy
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. — James Hillman
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are… — Francis Quarles
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus,… — Gemma Galgani
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of… — Rose Philippine Duchesne
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable… — Pio of Pietrelcina
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine… — John Quincy Adams
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. — Edwin Way Teale
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that… — Stephen Schneider
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
...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness… — Thomas Carlyle

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