Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Leo Tolstoy

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

Amity Shlaes

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

John Ortberg

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Rudolf Steiner

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Francois Rabelais

Set your mind on beauty, love, and virtue. You will be blessed, great, pure, and true.

Debasish Mridha

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Blaise Pascal

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

B.F. Skinner

And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Colossians 3 14

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Gilbert Parker

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Jon Meacham

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

James Oliver

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to prove anything to the world:

David Brooks

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!

Diogenes Laërtius

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

David Mallet

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe