Quotes about virtue
virtue principal
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke
virtue fashionable
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Jose Marti
virtue christ easy
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life. John Stuart Mill
virtue blushing colour
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
virtue grows humans
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Madeleine L'Engle
virtue impetus
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.] Quintilian
virtue dalai underestimated
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated. Pico Iyer
virtue courage-to-love greater
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. Paul Tillich
virtue relation humans
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s). Martin Buber
virtue
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself. Pope John Paul II
virtue one-thing
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. John Henry Newman
virtue masters should
We should make virtue our master, not our servant. Josh Billings
virtue saved can-do
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
virtue advantage virtuous
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. Joseph Butler
virtue virtuous fortunate
You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous. Malcolm Forbes
virtue allowance esteem
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. John Locke
virtue hereditary
Virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue locals
Virtue is too often merely local. Samuel Johnson
virtue praise servant
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. Samuel Johnson
virtue needed greater
It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked Susan Wiggs
virtue said intellect
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of. Thomas Carlyle
virtue stubbornness ifs
Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right. Tony Dungy
virtue idleness
Idleness breeds our better virtues. William Faulkner
virtue economics budgets
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. Ronald Reagan
virtue commit fatherland
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. Witold Gombrowicz
virtue economy devices
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. William Graham Sumner
virtue capacity humans
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good. William Godwin
virtue mask dangerous
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. Washington Irving
virtue
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. Voltaire
virtue oversight packages
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. Will Durant
virtue easy form
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
virtue innocent
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent. Ward Churchill