Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude,… — Radhanath Swami
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. — Alan Cohen
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of… — Raghuram Rajan
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly… — Wilhelm Keitel
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure… — Charles S. Maier
Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of… — Bonnie D. Parkin
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift… — Mac Anderson
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. — Alex Comfort
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of… — Marcel Achard
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary,… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting… — Elias Lyman Magoon
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their… — Elias Lyman Magoon
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of… — Johann Arndt
Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary. — Greg L. Bahnsen
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right… — Richard Holloway
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. — John Henry Jowett
The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all.… — Harry Frankfurt
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed-… — Susan Griffin
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks it impossible for… — Algernon Sidney
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity. — Francis Spufford
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames

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