Virtue Quotes
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I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Terry Eagleton
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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
Elena Ferrante
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
Witold Gombrowicz
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You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
Francis Chan
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Seneca the Younger
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.
Heidi Julavits
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When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
Chico Xavier
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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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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Claudius Claudianus
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Will Durant
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Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts.
Edmund Morris
