Virtue Quotes
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No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.
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Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue.
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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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.
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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.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
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The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
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Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.
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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.
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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.
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In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
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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.
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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.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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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.
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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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.
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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Virtue alone is true nobility.
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
