Virtue Quotes

3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. — Lord Byron
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he… — Lyndon B. Johnson
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which… — John Milton
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself… — Arthur Schopenhauer
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and… — Kiefer Sutherland
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Laozi
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot… — Zhuangzi
The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good.… — Laozi
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… — George Will
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary… — Alexander Hamilton
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols,… — William Howard Taft
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard… — Marcus Aurelius
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at… — Jane Rule
Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity,… — George Washington
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and… — Andrew Jackson
Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality. — George Washington
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and… — Albert Pike
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to… — Joseph Fort Newton
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me… — J. Reuben Clark
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord… — J. Reuben Clark
If I lose my life in a good cause I am willing to be sacrificed on the altar of virtue, righteousness and truth, in maintaining… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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