Top 100 Love Virtue Quotes
#2. The good hate sin because they love virtue.
[Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
Horace
#3. The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. Mortals that would follow me,
Love virtue, she alone is free,
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime;
Or if virtue feeble were,
Heaven itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
#5. Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
#6. And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?
John Milton
#7. For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions - art, philosophy, love, virtue - truth itself!
Joseph Conrad
#8. We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
#9. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
William Shakespeare
#11. Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#12. Pure love is giving without the mind of having given. This is true love, compassion and virtue.
Woo Myung
#13. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
Lord Byron
#14. The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
#15. Same spirit which gave it forth, - is the fundamental law of criticism. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
Paul Tillich
#17. A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
Khalil Gibran
#18. He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven
Thiruvalluvar
#19. Authoritative people bore me: but what bores me even more are those swarms of little people who love authority and in virtue of whom the authority of the authoritative can be exercised.
Nanamoli Thera
#20. Virtue is the path to God,
faith is the highway,
and love is the staircase.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. Mankind will find strength in itself to live for virtue, even without believing in the immortality of the soul! Find it in the love of liberty, equality, fraternity ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. Truth is the highest knowledge.
Faith is the highest courage.
Reason is the highest wisdom.
Love is the highest virtue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image.
Santosh Kalwar
#24. If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ... Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Virtue is a step toward cultivating authentic beauty, for the love and grace that is within a woman is what truly shines through to make her radiant. Grace illuminates the exterior.
Jenessa Terraccino
#27. A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#28. An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#29. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
G.K. Chesterton
#30. People continued - regardless of all that leads man forward - to try to unite the incompatibles: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. You can fuck anyone but when it comes to making love your virtue will be questioned.
Ankur Singh Yadav
#32. Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.
Cornel West
#33. Such is the joy of concluding a day performing duties earnestly leaving ends upon His feet! I have nothing to gain here except virtues, nothing to lose except love, O Lord, I am here to breathe the beauty of life!
Preeth Nambiar
#34. Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
Michelangelo
#35. Knowledge is a sage's best friend;
wisdom is his soul mate.
Virtue is a saint's best friend;
love is his soul mate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun
but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. By standing alone,
you prove your courage.
By standing with others,
you prove your love.
By standing with truth,
you prove your virtue.
By standing with God,
you prove your faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.
Jakob Bohme
#39. Set your mind on beauty, love, and virtue. You will be blessed, great, pure, and true.
Debasish Mridha
#40. It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
Charles Dickens
#41. Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
John Dryden
#43. The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.
Deacon Jones
#44. Love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#46. If it ends in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in this exercise, and the love of others which it will procure you.
Richard Dawkins
#47. The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
Joseph Campbell
#48. Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
Daniel Defoe
#49. The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.
Jane Porter
#50. A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#53. Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#54. Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
remember that law rules all.
Marcus Aurelius
#55. Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#56. Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Philip Sidney
#57. Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature
Thomas Merton
#58. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George Santayana
#59. She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
Thiruvalluvar
#60. No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.
Voltaire
#61. Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow
Marcus Aurelius
#62. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#64. I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end.
Jorge Luis Borges
#65. I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#66. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.
Mary Renault
#67. But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
John Dryden
#68. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#70. For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.
William Shakespeare
#71. A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#72. By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.
Anton Chekhov
#73. Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#75. There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.
Charles Kingsley
#76. As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
Philip Sidney
#79. A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
William Hazlitt
#80. Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#81. Men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
Margaret Deland
#82. The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.
Pope Gregory I
#83. Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love. Mattis Tannhouser
Tim Willocks
#84. Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.
Pope Benedict XVI
#85. Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)
Rollo May
#86. The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
Benjamin Disraeli
#87. Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
Confucius
#88. Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.
Lokendra Singh
#89. Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
He own offences, and strips others' bare.
William Cowper
#90. Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
William Cowper
#91. Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
Gautama Buddha
#92. [T]he great end of education ... is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue.
George Turnbull
#93. Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Maximilien Robespierre
#94. Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
Soren Kierkegaard
#96. It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
Victor Hugo
#97. To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
John Howard Griffin
#98. Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
As false as dicers' oaths.
William Shakespeare
#99. A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#100. That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.
Brother Lawrence
