Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.

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 cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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