Virtue Quotes

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Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what… — Thomas a Kempis
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious… — Julius Evola
Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue — Charles Saatchi
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. — Yukio Mishima
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue… — Charles Fourier
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held… — Esther Vilar
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare… — Ibn Hazm
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. — Robert K. Merton
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — Philip Yancey
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses… — Benjamin Graham
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. — Benjamin Graham
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing… — Errol Morris
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength — Georg Buchner
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole… — Joseph Warren
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you… — Neville Goddard
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values. — Keith Ferrazzi
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance,… — Orville Dewey
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle… — Richard Livingstone
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it… — Jack Valenti
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. — Alan Sokal
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain… — John Angell James
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in… — William Shirley

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