Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

You want the world to be perfect, Nedril—and that's a noble goal. But the world isn't perfect. It's people like me who give the world the chance to try another day for virtue.

You will be welcome in hell, Senora. Hell is the home of honor, duty, justice, and the rest of the seven deadly virtues. All the wickedness on earth is done in their name: where else but in hell should they have their reward? Have I not told you that the truly damned are those who are happy in hell?

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

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

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.