Top 1200 Virtue Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.
A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.
Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.
Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.