Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.