Best 64 quotes in «virtuous quotes» category

There is another type of fiction which we create all the time to glorify ourselves and denounce others. We backbite more and praise less. We project ourselves as smarter than what we actually are and discredit the smartness of others. We cover our follies and believe that we are great, good and virtuous and brand others as evil and vicious.

The times might be unpleasant, repulsive. The ghastly chaos, the abhorrent uncivility might be intolerable, might force us into argument or leave us panic-stricken. On such occasions people build within themselves a conviction, that the world outside is diabolical. The whimsical insults test our level of endurance causing us to plead for mercy, wanting us to be pitied than exploited and victimized. Often this grief and shame form a delusion within us that there no longer exists good in this world, that good people are fictitious and that goodness has lost its definition altogether. But such is not true because there are still people who are virtuous, unselfish, willing to help and possessing the ability of restoring our faith in humanity, to disregard them, their presence would be as heinous as the deeds of the people who are unlike them. The times might be unpleasant, repulsive but we’ll come out it, unharmed and liberated.

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

What grave liability one incurs when one calls a virtuous woman, a whore! It will ruin his countless lives to come. There is no liability if one calls a whore a virtuous woman!

What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

When someone is angry and hateful toward you ~ they spit out all kinds of venom, to inflict you with unnecessary hurt and pain. But when you know who you are within, and you stand by your truth, their venom cannot poison you, its arrow turns and points straight back at them! To be humble and virtuous is a trait of the noble and the righteous

You believe what you are and you are what you believe. This is a vicious or virtuous cycle in which we are all trapped. Our faiths and beliefs are like walls erected around us that provide us security but also act like a prison by blocking our view from the complete reality. We live in a make-believe world, oblivious to the reality that exists outside the four walls of our beliefs. The deep-rooted belief is called ‘faith’, which is responsible for many good things, but also for much of the evil in the world.

A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .