Virtue Quotes
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
Ray Allen
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil
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Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
George Washington
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The home is the chief school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
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Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
William Penn
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What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community.
Arthur Dobrin
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In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
Paul Davies
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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
Melissa de la Cruz
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus
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I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Eugene Sue
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Eugene O'Neill
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Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
David Samuels
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Lord Jesus Christ, you created me, you watched over me from infancy, kept my body from defilement, preserved me from love of the world, made me able to withstand torture, and granted me the virtue of patience in the midst of torments.
Agatha of Sicily
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Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
Evan Harris
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne
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Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings—even 'all that he hath.'
Elaine S. Dalton
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
Petrarch
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William Cullen Bryant
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
Seneca the Younger
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As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.
Eldar Djangirov
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We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
Marcel Proust
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
Stephen Covey