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Virtue Quotes - Page 28

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Lawrence G. Lovasik
Faults, Virtue, Persons
Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.49, Sophia Institute Press

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Laurence Sterne
Tickets, Chance, Virtue
Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..”, p.113

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Vices, Virtue, Shortcomings
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Laozi
May, Abundance, Virtue
Laozi (1939). “The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu”

The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.

Laozi
Taoism, Virtue, Claims

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

Laozi
Taoism, Virtue, Seems

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

Laozi
Taoism, Virtue, Fragile

There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.

Lancelot Andrewes
Christ, Virtue, Worthy
Lancelot Andrewes (1874). “Ninety-six Sermons: Sermons preached in Lent, on Good-Friday, and on Easter-day”, p.120

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Krista Tippett
Space, Interviews, Virtue

Compassion is not a popular virtue

Karen Armstrong
Compassion, Virtue
Karen Armstrong (2011). “The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah”, p.378, Atlantic Books Ltd

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Juvenal
Vices, Deceiving, Virtue

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

Julius Charles Hare
Brave, Purity, Virtue
Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180

As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.

Julian Assange
Media, Winner, Virtue
"'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Judith Martin
Hypocrisy, Sin, Virtue
Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

Josh Billings
Dying, Shame, Virtue

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

Joseph Smith, Jr.
Views, Soul, Virtue

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

Joseph Rago
Virtue, Inherent

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

Joseph M. Marshall III
Bravery, Demand, Virtue
Joseph M. Marshall III (2002). “The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living”, p.127, Penguin

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Joseph Joubert
Vices, Virtue, Calculations
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.87

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Joseph Joubert
Two, Vices, Virtue
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Joseph Butler
Virtue, Advantage, Virtuous
Joseph Butler, Joseph McKee (1847). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature”, p.69

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Joseph Addison
Mind, Affection, Virtue
Joseph Addison (1721). “The Spectator, no. 90-505”, p.611

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Jonathan Nolan
Distance, Looks, Virtue
"Memento Mori". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton
Growth, Virtue, Vicious
John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

John Milton
Virtue, Chimes, Stoops
1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.

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