Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

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

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

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

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

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.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.