I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
~By Martin Sheen ~
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
~By Confucius ~
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
~By Henry Fielding ~
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
~By William J. Slim ~
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~By Aristotle ~
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
~By William Blake ~
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
~By Marcel Achard ~
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
~By Kingsley Amis ~
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
~By Philip Massinger ~
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
~By Margaret Deland ~
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
~By Maya Angelou ~
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
~By Larry Wall ~
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
~By Andre Breton ~
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
~By John Dryden ~
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
~By Rebecca West ~
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
~By William Ames ~
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
~By Abraham Cowley ~
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
~By Will Durant ~
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
~By Horace Walpole ~
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
~By Ben Jonson ~
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
~By Elizabeth I ~
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
~By William Penn ~
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
~By Philip Massinger ~
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~By Jeff Miller ~
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
~By Walter Scott ~
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
~By Joseph A. Schumpeter ~
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
~By Francis Atterbury ~
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
~By Francois Fenelon ~
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
~By Mae West ~
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
~By Sallust ~
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
~By Moliere ~
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
~By Francis Quarles ~
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~By David Mallet ~
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
~By Jean Racine ~
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
~By Frank Wedekind ~
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
~By Virgil ~
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
~By Anatole France ~
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
~By Quintilian ~
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
~By Plutarch ~
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