Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

David Mallet

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

P. Remes

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

Tobin Wilson

Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue.

Life

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

William A. Dembski

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

William Shenstone

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

James Buchan

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Sidney Lanier

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purity and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make o...

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification...

Atlas Shrugged

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict w...

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important passages of the four several books; those sins being much more elaborately and powerfully represented than the virtues, which are oppos...

Spenser's Faerie queene: An interpretation

...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please bu...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Clara: Now, is it true that you've been injecting yourself with semen from baby pigs? Riggan: I'm sorry, what? Clara: As a method of facial rejuvenation. Riggan: Where did you read that? Clara: It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers. Riggan: No, that's ...

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Sam: Do you really think you'll be ready for opening tomorrow? Riggan: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, previews were pretty much a train-wreck. We can't seem to get through without a raging fire or a raging hard-on. I'm broke. I'm not sleeping like, ...

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.

Chinese Business Etiquette: The Practical Pocket Guide