Virtue Quotes
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If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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And she has a thousand virtues and not one acknowledged sin, But she is the sort of person you could liken to a pin. And she pricks you, and she sticks you, in a way that can't be said, When you seek for what has hurt you, why, you cannot find the head.
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.
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All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.
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The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.
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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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Fidelity is an overrated virtue. I feel so because people hardly follow it and so it becomes overrated.
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Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
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Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.
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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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It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God...
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
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One overriding fact dominates all of modern civilization, the fact that the property of a single person can increase indefinitely, and even, by virtue of almost universal consent, encompass the entire world.
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But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
