Virtue Quotes
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl Barth -
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity
Ryunosuke Satoro
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Confucius -
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
R. C. Sproul -
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
John Milton -
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde -
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks -
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
Francis Bacon -
Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
Aristotle -
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel -
Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.
Lao Tzu -
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Plato
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
John Milton -
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
Frances Wright -
The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
William Hazlitt -
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
D. Todd Christofferson -
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
J. Paul Getty
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Virtue proceeds through effort.
Euripides -
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey -
Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
Norman Thomas -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong