Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't… — Socrates
In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick… — Bo Lozoff
Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are… — Ken Schoolland
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,… — Plato
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. — Marjorie Holmes
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens. — Gautama Buddha
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond. — Gautama Buddha
The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old. — Gautama Buddha
Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue. — Socrates
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it… — Herodotus
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single… — Austin O'Malley
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not… — Publilius Syrus
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still… — E. J. Dionne
Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue — Friedrich Schiller
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. — Joseph Addison
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity,… — John Quincy Adams
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we… — Paul Kurtz
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in… — John B. S. Haldane
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of… — Unknown Author
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like… — Max Eastman
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and… — Unknown Author
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses… — Jonathan Mayhew

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