Best 1793 quotes in «virtue quotes» category

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 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 a night person. There's a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person. But as I've gotten a bit older, now I'm completely okay with it. That's just who I am.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it is simply in virtue of my brain's higher capacity and complexity. A large difference - my cerebral equipment allows me to have such diverse concepts as "hope", "funky", "England", "multiplication", "three strikes" and "the categorical imperative" - but a difference in degree. Wolves, of course, are superior to me with regards to smelling, hearing, and running, and are generally superior to humans in that they don't kill each other.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

Let us respect even error when it has its source in virtue.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

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

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.