Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially destructive in ways that many other virtues are not likely to be when they are corrupted. Nationalism and patriotism are especially prone to misguided excess.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.