Quotes about virtue
virtue circumstances prudence
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. John Milton
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 excuse pot
Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe) Sherrilyn Kenyon
virtue respectable
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain
virtue
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue
virtue command beggar
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. Friedrich Schiller
virtue principal
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue. Henry Bolingbroke
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 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 stills
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue. George R. R. Martin
virtue measure-for-measure
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. Germaine Greer
virtue constancy humans
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. Giuseppe Mazzini
virtue conception
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct. Herbert Spencer
virtue nobility
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. Gary Zukav
virtue wraps
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.] Horace
virtue lost slowness
There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost Graham Greene
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. Euripides
virtue fine nobility
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem Jane Porter
virtue vicious virtuous
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
virtue dalai underestimated
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated. Pico Iyer
virtue humankind amiable
Virtue is not always amiable. John Adams
virtue parliament humankind
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
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 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 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 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 fashionable
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Jose Marti
virtue grows humans
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Madeleine L'Engle
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