383 Virtue Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia. Lionel Murphy

Government Other Virtue See Development Participation Australia Nations Cannot Them Plan Planning Plans Apparently

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. Major Owens

Time Competition Compassion Busy Everybody Virtue No Time Competing

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that. Marc Webb

Everybody Virtue Part Greater Skepticism Whole

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature Mind Virtue Consistent Habit Moderation Reason

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life Truth Value Action Active Virtue Neglect Only Gives Taken True True Value Up Duties Should Search

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life's mission and His purposes. He wants us to be successful, and He will help us as we seek His help. Margaret D. Nadauld

Life Righteousness Walk Father Will Live Virtue Our Seek Given Daughters Purposes He Mission His Heavenly Heavenly Father Where Wants Ask Us Much Successful Fulfill Required Help

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. Margaret Oliphant

Life Art Quality Fate Long Virtue Has-Been Morals Excellent Long Life Industry Been Chiefly Little Production Satisfactory Credited

I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values. Mark Waid

Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue. Marquis de Lafayette

Life Will Degree My Life National Virtue Though Worthy Constitutional Laws Martyrs Highest Highest Degree Merely Supported Most Proud August Conduct National Sovereignty Sovereignty Which While Manifested Republican Act Homage Reason Who Sworn Here Royalty

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked. Mary Karr

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality. Mary Matalin

Good Nature People Progress Free First Understanding Human Nature Conservatism Virtue Markets Morality Only Free Markets Free People Principle Greatest Always Greatest Number Human Depends Interacting Informed Produce Widespread Number

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. Mary Wortley Montagu

Trust First Virtue Temptation Never Nobody Force Known Felt Till Duties Which Should Avoid Therefore Necessity

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. Matthew Prior

Beauty Virtue Join Divine Semblance Form Paint

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue. Mencius

Friendship Man Virtue His

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. Michel de Montaigne

Virtue Thorny Way Facility She Requires Companion Rough Her Rejects

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? Milton Friedman

Me You People Political Reward Think Virtue Presidents Pardon Excuse Does American Rewards Clout Communist Choose Appointed Basis

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 Several Indian Pretty Pretty Good Cultures Being Different Different Cultures Languages Exposed Reservations

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Nassau William Senior

Happiness Respect Wealth Political Matter Made First Complaint Virtue Consideration Attention Economists Obstacles Been Often Confine Against Grave Disregard

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible. Nick Harkaway

Virtue Our Leaders Notion

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of. Niki Lauda

Life Patience People Too Much Too Virtue Something Course Much

Tenderness is a virtue. Oliver Goldsmith

Virtue Tenderness

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right. Paul Elmer More

God Good Law Walk Will Men Whatever Doubting Defense Humility State Virtue Only Never His Befall Right Humbly

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