Top 754 Virtuous Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

A virtuous girl never chases after boys; who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God’s grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will he is united to God. At the same time, in His goodness he is merciful to the sinner and by chastising him in this life brings him back to the path of virtue. Similarly, a man of good and dispassionate judgment also loves all men equally. He loves the virtuous man because of his nature and the probity of his intention; and he loves the sinner, too, because of his nature and because in his compassion he pities him for foolishly stumbling in darkness.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.