Virtue Quotes
3568 Virtue quotes by 1599 unique authors
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I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here…
— Mitt Romney
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There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
— Robert Southey
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.
— Edward Everett
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman…
— David O. McKay
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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
— Confucius
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
— Jean Paul
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Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by…
— Emil Ludwig
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One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be…
— Edward Augustus Bowles
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Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.
— Angela of Foligno
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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God
— Brigit of Kildare
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The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is…
— John Cassian
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by…
— John Climacus
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We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force…
— PZ Myers
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The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the Bible have life, power or…
— Robert D. Brinsmead
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When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be…
— Donald Bradman
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
— John C. Bogle
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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