Virtuous Quotes
458 quotes by 300 authors
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and…
— Andrew Jackson
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Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long…
— Jason Hartman
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike…
— Ramakrishna
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Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that…
— Stefan Molyneux
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Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other;…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
— Aristotle
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Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
— C.S. Lewis
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
— George Herbert
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear…
— Tacitus
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A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
— James Monroe
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will…
— Maximus the Confessor
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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
— June Jordan
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The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
— Laozi
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
— Laozi
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Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
— Shri Radhe Maa
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It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
— Tom G. Palmer
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In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
— Marquis de Lafayette
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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of…
— Mary MacLane
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down…
— Mary MacLane
Who Wrote These Virtuous Quotes
300 authors contributed a total of 458 Virtuous Quotes, led by these top contributors: