383 Virtue Quotes for You to Enjoy

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Adam Smith

Virtue Feared More Excess Because Subject Than Vice Regulation Conscience

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. Arnold J. Toynbee

World Islam Virtue Muslims Propagation Outstanding Between Contemporary Crying Contemporary World Islamic Achievements Happens Race Consciousness Need Extinction

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. CeeLo Green

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon

Life God Faith Alone Grace Christ Resting Saving Relation Virtue Immediate Him Accepting Sanctification Eternal Justification Eternal Life Receiving

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine

Good Ought Virtue Temper Principle Always Moderately Moderation Vice Thing

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine

Remember Ought Virtue Posterity Planning Hereditary

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo

Mask Beauty Virtue Veil Vice

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. William Bennett

Thankful Sometimes Virtue Indeed Ourselves Remind Thankfulness Need

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. Brian Eno

Great Me You Yourself People Feelings Singing Become Community Group Virtue Way Lies About Self Empathy Sing Learn Because How Stop Being While Little Social Us Little While Consciousness

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. Friedrich Nietzsche

Blame Madness Virtue Everyone Praise Human

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. John Henry Newman

Selfish Reward Will Own Virtue Pleasure Religious Only Never Highest Because Cultivate Sake Truest Gain Brings

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? John Quincy Adams

Rights Humanity First Depend Skin Virtue Evils Moral More Color Doctrine Principle Makes Sources False Very Than Heartless Vice Estimates Which Among Slavery

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Jose Rizal

Justice Injustice Virtue Weakest Foremost Nations While Races

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. Mary Wollstonecraft

Life Blessing Will Independence Long Live Every Virtue Considered Though Secure Were Contracting Heath Wants Grand Barren Ever Basis

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. Richard Rohr

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. Sonia Sotomayor

You Business Selfish People World Sometimes Virtue Something Only Networking Tainted Pursuit Obscurity Put Advantage Idealistic Known Off Heaven Rewarded Flattery Succeed Whole

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

Happiness Good Man Will Own Virtue Secured Through Attained

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce

Virtue Those About Betrayed Fidelity Who Peculiar

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. Andrew Jackson

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