Virtuous Quotes
458 quotes by 300 authors
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
— Aristotle
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
— Walter Bagehot
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is…
— Samuel Adams
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle…
— Abdallah II
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
— Samuel Butler
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Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great…
— Amy Chua
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
— Maya Angelou
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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the…
— Thomas Aquinas
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There is much that is difficult and challenging in the world today, my brothers and sisters, but there is also much that is good and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation…
— George Washington
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
— Zengzi
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to…
— Benjamin Haydon
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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires…
— Charley Reese
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.…
— Henry George
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned…
— Lucretia Mott
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about…
— Geshe Gyeltsen
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
— Aristotle
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It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Who Wrote These Virtuous Quotes
300 authors contributed a total of 458 Virtuous Quotes, led by these top contributors: