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Virtue Quotes

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Life Practice My Own Become Virtue

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

God Faith Virtue Human Right Own

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Patriotism Virtue Vicious

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Great Simple Equality Manners Virtue

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

N. Scott Momaday

Good Knowledge World Living Virtue

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Age Virtue Clearly Being Been Would

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Forgiveness Brave Virtue

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Nicolas Chamfort

Truth Man Virtue Aspire May Cannot

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Myself Worry Virtue Used Instrument

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Marquis de Sade

Know Virtue First Vice Order Must

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Creativity Virtue Vice Productivity

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Space Virtue Interview Bring Being

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Heart Will Minds Virtue Shame Watch

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Curious American Speed Fast Virtue

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

E. Stanley Jones

Life Character Think Virtue Human

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Ambition Parent Virtue Vice Though

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

Jessica Valenti

Women Woman Motherhood Place Virtue

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry Kissinger

Funny Thought Virtue Moderation Only

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Credit Poor Virtue Pay Cash Because

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Erwin Schrodinger

Community Animal Kind Virtue Improve

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Maximilien Robespierre

Justice Democracy Country Virtue

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Hate Envy Feeling Moral Virtue Out

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Life Man Virtue Strive First Twice

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Strong True Virtue Events Alike

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