Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

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

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

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 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 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.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

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

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

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

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

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

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

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes you stronger. It just helps you get used to it.

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

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.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

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

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

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

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.