Virtue Quotes - Page 53

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

Courage is the virtue of the free.

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.