Top 1200 Virtue Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy
The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.
Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
