Virtue Of Quotes

#1. Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

George W. Bush

#2. An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Maria Montessori

#3. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#4. The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

Georg Buchner

#6. I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")

Bernard Capes

#7. I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

Christopher Meloni

#8. It is time for us to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term "person of faith" as a compliment.

Jerry A. Coyne

#9. He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

John Steinbeck

#10. Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

Michael Ugwu Eneja

#11. He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

Luc De Clapiers

#12. A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#13. A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

Doreen Virtue

#14. Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#15. He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: instrument of torture! Seducing prisoners, and then revealing my dragon scales! They would confess out of sheer horror.

Rachel Hartman

#16. Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Horace

#17. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

Edward Abbey

#18. In any case, I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

Alexei Panshin

#19. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

Madame De Stael

#21. There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Lancelot Andrewes

#22. The field as a whole is defined as a system of deviations on different levels and nothing, either in the institutions or in the agents, the acts or discourses they produce, has meaning except relationally, by virtue of the interplay of oppositions and distinctions.

Pierre Bourdieu

#23. Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.

J.I. Packer

#24. A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Aristotle.

#25. So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

Zhuangzi

#26. of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!

Benjamin Franklin

#27. Nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue.48

John D. Barrow

#28. The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

#29. Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Harriet Martineau

#30. I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

Walter Scott

#31. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

#32. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

Oliver Goldsmith

#33. Knowledge was the great thing
not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.

Graham Greene

#34. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

William Shakespeare

#35. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#36. The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Roger L'Estrange

#37. Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Philip Massinger

#38. The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

Epictetus

#39. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Freya Stark

#40. The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

#41. As to virtue ... it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Alexis Carrel

#42. Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

Edward Everett

#43. Mankind is immortal
in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature
but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in
death; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic,
one and one make a brand new one.

Rose A. Zimbardo

#44. Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,
small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class
thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

Confucius

#45. It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way

Louisa May Alcott

#46. We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Simone Weil

#47. There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#48. Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

Theodor Billroth

#49. Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Thomas Keneally

#50. Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#51. We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Seneca The Younger

#52. Spinoza spoke of vitality as the purest virtue, the only virtue. The drive to persist, to flourish, he said, is the absolute quality shared by all living beings. What happens, however, when vitality is inverted, and instead of flourishing, one is driven to eat oneself alive?

Michael Greenberg

#53. I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

Teresa Of Avila

#54. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#55. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#56. I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

Doreen Virtue

#57. The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation
abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.

Nathaniel Branden

#58. Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Seneca The Younger

#59. For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Thomas A Kempis

#60. The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

St. John Climacuslimacus

#61. It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Andre Gide

#62. No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

Marcus Garvey

#63. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Charles Sumner

#64. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

Oscar Wilde

#65. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#66. The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!

Lydia Maria Francis Child

#67. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.

Rumi

#68. The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#69. A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore De Balzac

#70. Winter noon is on the rise. Weak suns yet alive
are as virtue to suns of that other day.
For the poor town dreams
of surrender, mother
never untender,
mother gallant
and gay.

Anne Carson

#71. History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Voltaire

#72. Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

Margaret Of Valois

#73. When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Charles Horton Cooley

#74. If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

Gavin McInnes

#75. I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

Lloyd Alexander

#76. Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

Ward Churchill

#77. Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;
that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

Laurence Sterne

#78. Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

Bhartrhari

#79. Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

Baron De Montesquieu

#80. I travel the broad path as is the way of youth, I give myself to vice unmindful of virtue, I am eager for the pleasure of the flesh more than salvation, my soul is dead and I shall look after the flesh.

Carl Orff

#81. Yet to give over one's honor for that reason was so easy, wasn't it? To excuse the fall of virtue by invoking all-powerful ka.

Stephen King

#82. A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.

Doreen Virtue

#83. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.

Walt Whitman

#84. The virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Pamela Frankau

#85. Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

Xi Jinping

#86. There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them. I feel like most people in the new age had this as their most recent lifetime experience, that kind of communal living.

Doreen Virtue

#87. Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

Nathan Myhrvold

#88. I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

John Quincy Adams

#89. Neither Rousseau nor Robespierre was capable of dreaming of a goodness beyond virtue, just as they were unable to imagine that radical evil would 'partake nothing of the sordid or sensual' (Melville), that there could be wickedness beyond vice.

Hannah Arendt

#90. Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.

Trita Parsi

#91. A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

Suzy Kassem

#92. What perversity of mind made suffering a virtue and pleasure a sin?

Marty Rubin

#93. Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

Al-Ghazali

#94. Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#95. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

Winston S. Churchill

#96. It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.

Robert Farrar Capon

#97. I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

Jonathan Frakes

#98. All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

Mahatma Gandhi

#99. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Alexander Pope

#100. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Hannah More