Browsing Topic Best Virtue Quotes

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Compassion is not a virtue; it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have, and it’s something we choose to practice.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

Diversity is not a virtue. Diversity is a good only to the extent that it advances other virtues, justice or inclusiveness of others who have previously been excluded.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings,Innocence sweetens my last black breath,Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God’s question and call.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature’s mark to know an honest heart by.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov’d, despis’d! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

a writer’s first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.