Virtue Quotes - Page 17

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.