Quotes about virtue
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Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue used eternal-vigilance
The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible. Benjamin Netanyahu
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. William Shakespeare
virtue democratic candidates
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected. Bernard Meltzer
virtue pursue happens
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue. Chelsea Handler
virtue you-like-it negotiation
Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. Don Marquis
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If there is no immortality, there is no virtue
virtue excuse pot
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) Sherrilyn Kenyon
virtue principal
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke
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 command beggar
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. Friedrich Schiller
virtue servant willing
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. Philip Sidney
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
virtue blushing colour
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue interest paragon
I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. Steve Coogan
virtue creation incarnation
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
virtue mark
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Ralph Waldo Emerson
virtue cathartic tarts
Tart, cathartic virtue.
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 cardinals contempt
Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue. Steven Pressfield
virtue virtuous offended
Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous. Richard Steele
virtue excellent capacity
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
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
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Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself. Pope John Paul II
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 hereditary
Virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine
virtue granted hours
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour. Robert Musil