Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. — Tina Fey
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own… — Unknown Author
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is… — Jerry Bridges
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. — Maya Angelou
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means. — Aristotle
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue. — Andy Stanley
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the… — Ellen G. White
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. — David Halberstam
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the… — Robert James Waller
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak… — Thomas Boston
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more… — Keith Floyd
We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy… — Robert Jensen
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as… — Ernestine Rose
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the… — Iain Pears
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right… — Adam Kokesh
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a… — Theodore Dalrymple
If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as… — Hannah Whitall Smith
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for… — Randy Cohen
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark,… — Yasmin Mogahed
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. — James Richardson

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