Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

I think no virtue goes with size.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.