Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness.

Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

Those who stand in the way of virtue shall fail!

Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works.

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new and like a puzzle to work out, by virtue of it being a foreign culture.

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.