Virtue Quotes
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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
Eric Greitens
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The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
John Ruskin
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
William Gifford
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No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
Esther Hicks
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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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Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Langer
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
Helen Keller
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
John Ruskin
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty.
Benjamin Rush
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
John Calvin