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Virtue Quotes - Page 14

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

Zhuangzi
Destiny, Virtue, Fame

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Winston Churchill
Courage, Virtue, Depends

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Thrifty, Ifs

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Walter Lippmann
Rewards, Virtue, Consequence
Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.137, Transaction Publishers

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert
Independence, Virtue, Skepticism

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Theodore Parker
Pride, Vices, Virtue

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

Steve Coogan
Morality, Virtue, Said
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Samuel Johnson
Strong, Men, Virtue
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.389

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Samuel Johnson
Mind, Virtue, Abstinence
"The Idler: With Additional Essays".

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

Robert Ardrey
Doe, Virtue, Parades
ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Publilius Syrus
Vices, Virtue, Familiar

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

Plutarch
Thinking, Virtue, Admirer

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Plato
Soul, Kind, Virtue
Plato (1849). “The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias”, p.130

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Owen Feltham
Liberty, Virtue, Truest
Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.12

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Soul, Noble, Virtue
"Satires (Satire 5)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Milan Kundera
Loyalty, Lasts, Virtue

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Miguel de Cervantes
Literature, Virtue, Nobility
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1719). “THE HISTORY Of the RENOWNED Don QUIXOTE De la MANCHA.”, p.129

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

Michael Crichton
Intellectual, Academia, Virtue

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

Max Planck
Atoms, Matter, Virtue
"Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, 2008.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain
Money, Virtue, Respectable
Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.589

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

Margaret of Valois
Delicacy, Virtue, Genuine

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison
Modesty, Virtue, Betray
Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.560

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Joseph Addison
Friendship Love, World, Virtue
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.333

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

John Churton Collins
Pride, Parent, Virtue

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

John Adams
Virtue, Parliament, Humankind
Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.116, UPNE

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