Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

There is explosive power in virtue.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

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.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

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.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.