Virtue Quotes - page 7

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. (Aristotle)
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. View quote
Adam Smith
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them. View quote
Josh Billings
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. View quote
Anthony the Great
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. View quote
Cornelia Otis Skinner
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. View quote
Augustus Hare
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type. View quote
Ajay Naidu
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list. View quote
Brit Hume
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. View quote
Major Owens
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. (Robert Dale Owen)
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. View quote
William Ames
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. View quote
Germaine Greer
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Truth is the secret of eloquence and virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and of life. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. (William James)
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. View quote
Thomas Paine
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase. View quote
Marina Warner
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. View quote
Frank Zappa
There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost. View quote
Graham Greene