Virtue Quotes
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
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There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.
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Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
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A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.
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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
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I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
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Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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I am reminded of Housman's remark that 'accuracy is a duty, not a virtue.' To praise a historian for his accuracy is like praising an architect for using well-seasoned timber or properly mixed concrete in his building. It is a necessary condition of his work, but not his essential function.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
