Top 1200 Virtuous Woman Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex.

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires some cognitive ability. If virtue is about desires, it is worth remembering that you can't desire some things without being able to conceive of them. Suppose a virtuous person will desire to make people happy and desire to tell the truth. You can't desire to make people happy without having the concept "happy" and you can't desire to be truthful if you don't have have the concept "lie", so a cat or a baby cannot desire these things.

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

I am known for always playing virtuous characters.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Every virtuous man is free.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.