Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them… — Doreen Virtue
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. — Thomas S. Monson
Happiness is the reward of virtue. — Aristotle
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women… — Russell M. Nelson
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are… — Aristotle
From virtue all happy states arise. — Gampopa
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly,… — Jeanette
Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to… — Swami Vivekananda
Endurance is the queen of all virtues. — Saint John Chrysostom
Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one. — Confucius
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. — Phillis Wheatley
Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass. — Bhartrhari
All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is… — William Shakespeare
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and… — William Lyon Phelps
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue. — Unknown Author
The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are… — Laozi
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It… — Laozi
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it… — Andreas Libavius
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going… — Charlie Munger
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation… — Gerald of Wales
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. — Charles de Saint-Evremond
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some… — Mary Wortley Montagu

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