Quotes of: Virtues Keyword

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

William Whitehead

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Margaret Oliphant

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini

Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.

About Face

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.

All That Is

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

A History of Western Philosophy

Modesty isn’t always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

Kora in Hell

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Killosophy

Men, and pigs, are hard on women who sacrifice their virtue, especially for love." Mattis Tannhouser

The Religion

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Sand and Foam

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Sand and Foam

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

Middlemarch

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg