Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Simone Weil

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

Tom Hiddleston

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Lyman Abbott

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Saint Augustine

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Samuel Butler

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Michael Sandel

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Max Weber

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Nancy Gibbs

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Giorgio Armani

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

Craig Brown

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

David Hume

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Confucius

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall