Virtue Quotes

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Thomas Aquinas

GoodHappinessManWillVirtueOwn

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

ConfidenceGodLightManVirtueOwn

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Sarah Hall

VirtueCraftFictionIdeaWriter

I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema.

Luca Guadagnino

WorkI AmLanguageCinemaVirtue

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

ShadowGloryVirtueWereFollows

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Jose Marti

VirtueMakeNecessaryFashionable

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

BetterVirtueAwareMorallyLess

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

Jonathan Miller

WindowPresentVirtueExtraordinary

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

TemptationVirtueInsufficient

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

Dick Cheney

EnergyPersonalVirtueSoundPolicy

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Francis Atterbury

ConfidenceSchoolVirtueLevity

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

VirtueCommonUncommonValor

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

VanityGoVirtueCompanyKeepFar

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Confucius

ManSpaceSeasonsMomentsVirtue

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Adam Smith

WomanManGenerosityHumanityVirtue

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

Brit Hume

NightSpeechKnowDoneNowVirtue

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg

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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Augustus Hare

StrengthObedienceVirtuePaganism

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

Benjamin Wittes

GreatBelieveYouAuthorityVirtue

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

BoldGoodnessVirtueNeverFearful

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks

GeniusBrightVirtueMoreGrayThan

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.

William Howard Taft

StarsDayThreeWillRaceVirtue

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Samuel Butler

VirtueWithinViceKeepFunction

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

ManAmbitionVirtueVicePrince

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