Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection… — George Eliot
Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only… — Rajneesh
...Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world... — Sathya Sai Baba
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury
I look forward serenely to the course of events, confident that the Fountain of supreme wisdom and virtue will provide for the happiness of his… — Gouverneur Morris
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and… — Freda Adler
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of… — Jesse Taylor
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there… — Joseph Stiglitz
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one… — Robert Ardrey
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily… — Mary Wortley Montagu
If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but… — Brian Johnson
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the… — Winston Churchill
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not;… — William Shakespeare
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. — Martial
The Gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength, and throw our into practice virtues that… — Joseph Addison
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them… — John Milton
Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We… — Henry D. Moyle
I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue… — Jim Rohn
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with… — Austin Farrer
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce
Virtue is the health of the soul. — Joseph Joubert
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in… — Ezra Taft Benson

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