Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

I've always been a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. But as I've gotten a bit older, now I'm completely okay with it. That's just who I am.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

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.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it is simply in virtue of my brain's higher capacity and complexity. A large difference - my cerebral equipment allows me to have such diverse concepts as "hope", "funky", "England", "multiplication", "three strikes" and "the categorical imperative" - but a difference in degree. Wolves, of course, are superior to me with regards to smelling, hearing, and running, and are generally superior to humans in that they don't kill each other.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

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

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

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.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

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

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .