Virtue Quotes
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Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
Honore de Balzac -
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
Mother Teresa
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare -
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
Alexander Nehamas -
The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.
Helen Keller -
The grandest virtue seems deficient.
Lao Tzu -
Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides -
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
William Shakespeare
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Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.
Lao Tzu -
As the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.
Carolyn Heilbrun -
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus -
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
William Butler Yeats -
For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?
William Cowper -
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus
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See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
Agesilaus II -
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
Studs Terkel -
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
William Hazlitt -
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
George Eliot -
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
William Godwin
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In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
Marilyn Monroe -
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.
Andreas Libavius -
This is the Free Market Revolution: It is the idea that economic freedom can flourish only in an America that celebrates selfishness—the individual’s pursuit of his rational, long-term self-interest—as a virtue.
Yaron Brook -
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
George Bernard Shaw