The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
~By Milton Friedman ~
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
~By Samuel Butler ~
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
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 ~
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
~By Francis John McConnell ~
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 ~
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
~By Kong Fu Zi ~
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
~By William Bennett ~
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 ~
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
~By John Herschel ~
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
~By Rudolf Steiner ~
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~By Aristotle ~
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
~By William C. Bryant ~
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
~By David Mallet ~
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
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 ~
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
~By Lionel K. Murphy ~
Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
~By James Goldsmith ~
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
~By Theodore Hesburgh ~
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
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 ~
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
~By George Grosz ~
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
~By Mark Foley ~
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
~By Abigail Adams ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
~By Matthew Prior ~
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
~By William J. Slim ~
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.
~By Danny Sugerman ~
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Great necessities call out great virtues.
~By Abigail Adams ~
Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
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 ~
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
~By Gordon B. Hinckley ~
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
~By Sidney Lanier ~
Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.
~By Eugene Sue ~
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
~By William Shirley ~
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 ~
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
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 ~
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
~By Gore Vidal ~
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
~By Voltaire ~
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
~By Sallust ~
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~By Anatole France ~
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
~By Lord Byron ~
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
~By Philip Massinger ~
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
~By Bob Riley ~
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
~By Algernon Sidney ~
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
~By James Oliver ~
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
~By Aristotle ~
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
~By Jean Paul ~
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
|