Quotes about virtue
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 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 virtuous persons
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru
virtue
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue
virtue grows humans
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Madeleine L'Engle
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 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 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 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
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 courage-to-love greater
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love. Paul Tillich
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 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 honour reap
Who sows virtue ought to reap honour. Leonardo da Vinci
virtue testimony clear
What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. Giordano Bruno
virtue civilized civilized-society
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise. J. Maarten Troost
virtue excuse pot
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) Sherrilyn Kenyon
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 goddess getting-along
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. John Ruskin