Virtue Quotes

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

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.

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

Courage is the virtue of the free.

Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test.

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.