Virtue Quotes
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God
If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.
No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.
Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
