Quotes about virtue
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 respectable
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain
virtue fortune
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. Ovid
virtue measure-for-measure
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. Germaine Greer
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
virtue fashionable
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Jose Marti
virtue conditions
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. Henry Ward Beecher
virtue sentinels conscience
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. Johann Kaspar Lavater
virtue social nonviolence
Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. Mahatma Gandhi
virtue humankind amiable
Virtue is not always amiable. John Adams
virtue parliament humankind
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
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
virtue
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
virtue blushing colour
Blushing is the colour of virtue. Matthew Henry
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
virtue circumstances prudence
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
virtue
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
virtue chimes teach
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
virtue nobility truest
Virtue is the truest nobility. Miguel de Cervantes
virtue one-thing
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. John Henry Newman
virtue prudence
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. Francois Fenelon
virtue grows humans
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Madeleine L'Engle
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 advantage virtuous
Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous. Joseph Butler