Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

My experience with working with really great actors is you don't have to act. All you have to do is listen. And, that's sort of a virtue and a wonderful thing to be able to experience. It's so much less work.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

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

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

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.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

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

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially destructive in ways that many other virtues are not likely to be when they are corrupted. Nationalism and patriotism are especially prone to misguided excess.

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.