Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Paul Elmer More

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Chanakya

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

George William Russell

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Maximilien Robespierre

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Buddha

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.

Thomas Paine

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Felix Adler

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Cynthia Ozick

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

B. Carroll Reece

Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.

George Hammond

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Geraldo Rivera

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

James Stephens

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Jeremy Taylor