Cardinal Virtue Quotes

#1. The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Joyce Meyer

#3. That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

#4. Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

David Mitchell

#5. The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Elsie De Wolfe

#6. Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Steven Pressfield

#8. I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Tina Turner

#9. Nash wanted to live a life with no regrets. I wanted to live a life that was fulfilled. We needed each other to accomplish that, and now that we had each other there was no then versus now, there was just this life we had together.

Jay Crownover

#10. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

#11. Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

Leonard Cohen

#12. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

Peter Kreeft

#13. A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Cardinal Richelieu

#14. Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

Andy Weir

#15. And if I didn't ever start, I couldn't fail.

Marie Sexton

#16. Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

James Hillman

#17. Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

William Fleming

#18. It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

Emile Coue

#19. Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

F Scott Fitzgerald