faith – Nimble Quotes

VIRTUE QUOTES

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. ”
― Mae West

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle

“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
― Billy Joel

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
― Sigmund Freud

“It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
― Joseph Smith

“I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”
― Joss Whedon

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
― Voltaire

“‎It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it.”
― Jim Butcher

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“… everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
― A.W. Tozer

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Wisdom ain’t a virtue I ever aspired to.”
― Moira Young

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can’t just assume that because something is old it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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― George Washington

“The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.”
― Confucius

“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”
― Epictetus

“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He cannot “tempt” to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― C. S. Lewis

“Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.”
― Milan Kundera

“Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.”
― Aristotle

“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian

“Your stockings prove your virtues.
Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”
― Emilie Autumn

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”
― Marquis de Sade

“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“As long as there are countries with borders in this world, nationalism would remain the highest virtue.”
― Abhaidev

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”
― Ayn Rand

“Those of us who aren’t summoned by the Dark Mark consider honesty to be a virtue.”
― Christina Lauren

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”
― Deanna Raybourn

“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.”
― Vanna Bonta

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you’ve got an audience!”
― Diogenes Laërtius

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
― Mark Twain

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”
― Voltaire

“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
― Akhenaton

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RIGHTEOUSNESS QUOTES

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”
― Glen Cook

“I’m alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I’m right.”
― John Grisham

“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
― Criss Jami

“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
― C.S. Lewis

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”
― Criss Jami

“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”
― John Bradshaw

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”
― Adrian Rogers

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”
― Confucius

“Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Better be a happy insincere than a troubled righteous, who complains about the unjust world all the time.”
― Abhaidev

“Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.”
― Clive Barker

“That’s the trouble with you preachers,” he said. “You’ve all got too good to believe in anything,” and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.”
― Flannery O’Connor

“The righteous do not always do right, but their souls remain pure.”
― J.R. Ward

“Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority”
― François Du Toit

“Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.”
― Sherry K. White

“Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.”
― Nadia Hashimi

“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”
― Gregory David Roberts

“If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A man is meant to sacrifice many things for a woman, save his VIP: his Verity, Integrity, and Probity.”
― Criss Jami

“The reaction of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
― J.I. Packer

“The person who finds that simple flaw, or mistake you made, then broadcast it. It’s their search for validation, at your expense. That’s the one thing missing in their life. Their self centered judgement will be met with themselves being judged. In Jesus name, amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“Lies are oxygen to the wicked as truth is to the righteous.”
― Joan Ambu

“A nation can be born in a day. The day righteousness is granted access and corruption is banned.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“The sin-ridden heart does not fear God but fears man, and when saying it loves men, it loves sin.”
― Criss Jami

“Laws are insufficient to endow a nation with righteousness.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Life has its own light to reflect upon itself…sooner or later it tends to come back for the righteous people, even if it’s gone for a long time.”
― Munia Khan

“I don’t like righteousness, I don’t. To my ears, righteousness sounds like the chatter made by birds in cages when the birds of the skies fly by.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Respond only to the righteous criticism from righteous people in a righteous way.”
― Dido Stargaze

“There’s more rewards in righteously leading the crowd, than recklessly pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“There’s more powerful rewards in righteously leading the crowd, than recklessly pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“In God’s household, we have solidarity with one another in suffering, which reveals our true hope for the fruit of righteousness.”
― Aimee Byrd

“The righteousness will not disappear if you hide it the spirit will feel it and all the bonds will shout.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Those who are walking in the righteousness of Christ will be strengthened by persecution and fire, not destroyed. Fire reveals what cannot be destroyed.”
― T.F. Tenney

“The righteous are rarely kind and the kind are rarely righteous.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The road of righteousness is narrow that leads to life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Only righteous path leads us to the right way”
― Munia Khan

“Sometimes you stand in a difficult dilemma: are the people around you too righteous or too naive? Perhaps naivety is simply sincere righteousness without a social mask.”
― Elmar Hussein

“Christ is my righteousness. I am neither less righteous for my ill deservings nor more righteous for my good deservings, for Christ is my righteousness, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
― John Bunyan

“A man’s righteousness shall be his reward.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whoever desire life must travel on the road of righteousness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Start the day with PRAISE,
Live the rest with RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
and ends them with THANKS-GIVING”
― Bradley B. Dalina

“Without any of us saying a word, righteousness will come from Jesus Christ.”
― Ron Baratono

“Religion without righteousness of Faith is vain hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Christ embraced me with all my sin and guilt that I may embrace him in all his righteousness.”
― Frederick S. Leahy

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