Virtue Quotes - page 6

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. (William Butler Yeats)
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. View quote
Boris Pasternak
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death. View quote
Denis Diderot
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. View quote
Herman Melville
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue. View quote
Edward Young
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. View quote
J. William Fulbright
Make a virtue of necessity. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. View quote
Erich Fromm
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. View quote
Francis Quarles
To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. View quote
Edmund Husserl
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. View quote
Sydney Smith
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. View quote
Horace
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. View quote
William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. View quote
William Shakespeare
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. (Mark Twain)
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. View quote
Robert Smith Surtees
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. View quote
Winston Churchill
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. View quote
Plato