Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it… — George Grosz
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, — John Rawls
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel… — Louis Pasteur
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or… — John Rawls
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to… — Bertrand Russell
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve… — Robert Browning
We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream… — Marc Ian Barasch
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. — Victor Hugo
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue. — David O. McKay
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular… — Joseph Pulitzer
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they… — Steve Fossett
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. — Joseph Addison
The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore de Balzac
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated… — Abraham Lincoln
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones. — Aristotle
Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it.… — Unknown Author
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. — Ayn Rand
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue. — Ayn Rand

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