Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

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 . . .

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.