Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious… — Zhuangzi
Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of all creation. He… — Zhuangzi
Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue. — James Hilton
When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Death, like virtue, has its degrees. — James O'Barr
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible. — Walter Kirn
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. — John Climacus
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. — Thomas Adams
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body… — St. Catherine of Siena
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. — Ashley Montagu
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. — Francis Quarles
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as… — Swami Satchidananda
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. — J. William Fulbright
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated… — Danny Sugerman
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority… — El Lissitzky
Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies. — Frederic Mistral
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness. — Miyamoto Musashi
Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
For the young, the practice of equitation is a valuable lesson, as it requires the exercise of all human virtue. If they are introduced to… — Nuno Oliveira
Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a… — Hannah
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue — Samuel Adams
That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer,… — Benjamin Franklin

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