Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

There is explosive power in virtue.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.

The theory of natural selection reduces to a banal truth: if a kind of creature flourishes in a kind of situation, then there must be something about such creatures (or about such situations, or about both) in virtue of which it does so.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue