Quotes of: Virtue Keyword

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Geoffrey Wood

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

James E. Faust

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't n...

Geoff Mulgan

Mike Shiner: A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Broadway Lady: [sees Riggan on the roof] Hey, is this for real, or are you shooting a film? Riggan: A film! Broadway Lady: You people are full of shit!

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

[first lines] Young Birdman: How did we end up here? This place is horrible. Smells like balls. We don't belong here.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

The Courage to Create

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Cardinal virtues collection of stories on Jaime L. Cardinal Sin

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

East of Eden

When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.

The Four Virtues: Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Ted Cruz

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.

Solar

O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily – while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls.

Jonathan V. Last

Mankind is immortal in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in death; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic, one and one make a...

Rose A. Zimbardo