Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

I do think vulnerability is a virtue.

I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

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

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

If you live with alertness, you live rightly. If you live in imitation, you live wrongly. To me there is only one sin: And that is not to be yourself. And to me there is only one virtue: And that is to know yourself.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

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.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

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.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.