383 Virtue Quotes for You to Enjoy

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Power Virtue Possess Proof Highest Abuse Boundless Without

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce

Patience Virtue Minor Disguised Form

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself. Ann Landers

Class Walk Virtue Everyone Kings Touch Crowds Talk Himself Comfortable Because Person Common Who Keep

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 Christ Think Add Virtue Ideal Longer Supreme Stood Human Human Life Standard Code Hence Thing Jesus Jesus Christ

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward. Fatty Arbuckle

Reward Will Own Nothing Virtue Out Shall Clean Clear Clear Conscience Pictures Like Offend Hands Children Whether Which Turned Produce Therefore Conscience Grownups Applied

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. Irving Babbitt

Ethics Sentiment Virtue Intoxication Restrictive New According Expansive Even

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War Live State Virtue Ourselves Combat Always

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? Karen Armstrong

Religion You People Key Sometimes Compassion Important Other Virtue Say Kind Religious Religious People Having Mention Point Stubborn Disapprove Look Talk How Very Often Much Popular

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office. Mae West

Reward Own Virtue Box Box Office Sale Office

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. Moliere

Pleasant Virtue Annoying Vice Prefer

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform. Patrick Henry

Success Freedom Me You People Remember Tyranny Final Virtue Ruins Possessing Destroyed Recollect Spirit Fearful More Small Instance Share Arms Without Makes None Than Reform Any Established Where Public Among British

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. Peter Ustinov

Thought Virtue She Said Vice Much Her Amount

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death God Christ Will Evil Blessed Nothing Virtue Our Everything Our Lives Touch Rising Only Divine Longer Suppressing Becoming Inevitably Reversing Sting Effects Hands Any Influence Again Capable Conquered Lives

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. Thomas Goodwin

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. Abraham Cowley

Knowledge Solitude People World Few Enough Despise Virtue Must See Vanity Foolishness Well Very Few People Used Who

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce

Success Perseverance Mediocrity Virtue Achieves Whereby Lowly

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. Aristotle

Wisdom Justice Virtue Consists Moderation

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. Baruch Spinoza

First Endeavor Virtue Only Understand Basis

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. Charles Lindbergh

Strength Peace Tolerance Virtue Depends

Uncommon valor was a common virtue. Chester W. Nimitz

Virtue Valor Uncommon Common

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe

Truth Virtue Honour Springs Whence

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. Claude Adrien Helvetius

Love Justice Happy Humanity Strong Inspire Honor Men Disposition Virtue Honors Strong Desire General Only Small Mention Glory Same Esteem Which Them Riches Whom Desire Number

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. Edmund Burke

Health You Be Happy Happy Virtue Well Without May

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