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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