Virtue Quotes

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

I'm really tired of virtue.

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

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

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger. It just helps you get used to it.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.