Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free… — Emma Goldman
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. — Aldous Huxley
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the… — Epictetus
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… — Ayn Rand
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. — Philip Massinger
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our… — Thomas Merton
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of… — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have… — Richard Branson
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid… — Learned Hand
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty… — R C Sproul
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless… — Kevin DeYoung
While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and… — Lisa See
Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. — Steven Pressfield
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the… — Fidel Castro
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave. — Indira Gandhi
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin. — Whitney M. Young
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the… — Seneca the Younger
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they… — Denis Diderot
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding… — Alan Greenspan
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled,… — Wilkie Collins

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