Quotes about virtue
virtue martyr preacher
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
virtue reason endowment
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
virtue easy kicks
It is easy to kick a person when he is down. Aesop
virtue obstinacy
Obstinacy alone is not a virtue. Albert Camus
virtue ifs my-own
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me. Confucius
virtue outlook
One's outlook is a part of his virtue. Amos Bronson Alcott
virtue certain certainty
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. Ambrose Bierce
virtue explosives
There is explosive power in virtue. Corrie Ten Boom
virtue application
Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. Muriel Spark
virtue honour reap
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour. Leonardo da Vinci
virtue fortune
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. Ovid
virtue worthy
To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.
virtue force misfortunes
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. Honore de Balzac
virtue guarded scarce
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel. Oliver Goldsmith
virtue tenderness
Tenderness is a virtue.
virtue glory whole
The whole glory of virtue resides in activity. Marcus Tullius Cicero
virtue imitation pleasure
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.
virtue premeditation
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. Georg C. Lichtenberg
virtue hours reason
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche
virtue virtuous persons
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru
virtue adaptability
Unadaptability is often a virtue. Flannery O'Connor
virtue fame
Make a virtue of necessity. Geoffrey Chaucer
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Francis Bacon
virtue guides
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. Frances Wright
virtue immortality ifs
There is no virtue if there is no immortality. Fyodor Dostoevsky
virtue distinction hard
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
virtue arise vigorous
When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
virtue whatever-happens happens
for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens... Jeremy Taylor
virtue nobility truest
Virtue is the truest nobility. Miguel de Cervantes
virtue blushing colour
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
virtue offense rejecting
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. Marilynne Robinson
virtue goddess getting-along
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. John Ruskin
virtue chimes ifs
Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. John Milton