Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible… — Brother Lawrence
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions… — Samuel Johnson
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially… — Al Alvarez
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. — Honore de Balzac
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters… — Samuel Johnson
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of… — Alfred Marshall
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in… — Frances Fox Piven
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the… — Unknown Author
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone,… — Walter Bagehot
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might… — Napoleon Hill
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered] — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united… — Unknown Author
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the… — Edmund Burke
From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to… — Stephen Covey
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride… — Stephen Covey
One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it. — Clive James
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The… — P.J. O'Rourke
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer,… — Ambrose Bierce
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,… — Roger Caillois
New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions. — John Perry Barlow
Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant… — Richard J. Foster
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what… — Adam Gopnik

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