Virtue Quotes - page 8

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. (Graham Greene)
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. View quote
Edward Dahlberg
A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space. View quote
George Sarton
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. View quote
Ayn Rand
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. View quote
Yukio Mishima
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Virtue lies in the middle ground. View quote
José Rizal
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue. (Xi Jinping)
Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue. View quote
Susan Sontag
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature. View quote
Georg Büchner
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue. View quote
Edmund Burke
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. View quote
Edmund Burke
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission. View quote
Edmund Burke
I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government. View quote
Edmund Burke
In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue. View quote
Gore Vidal
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. (John Rawls)
(...) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason. View quote
W. H. Auden
All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back. View quote
John Ruskin
Virtue is the same for a man and for a woman. View quote
Antisthenes