62 Virtuous Quotes for You to Enjoy

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass

Life Nation Virtuous Secure Only Truthful While Honest

I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful. Ron Conway

Work Hard Work Responsibility Giving Luck Believe Others Back Everyone Virtuous Give More Giving Back No-One Support Without Makes Becomes Lots Little Successful Creates Cycle Hard

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. Samuel Adams

Life Man Obligations Will Feeling Country Lost Before Virtuous Guilty Moral Betraying Void Seldom Had Instance He Soon Private His Private Life Very Regard Who Connections

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin

Time Great Man Mistake Goodness Think Virtuous Great Man Pronounce Never Without Truly Same Same Time Being Grand Certain

The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens. Samuel Adams

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley

Great Patriotism Feeling Nation Our Virtuous Worst Able More Cheat Wishes Attractions Bully Person Vicariously Fulfills Profoundly

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. Thomas Aquinas

People Some People Suitable Others Appropriate Virtuous Immoral Some Diverse Because Conditions Same Happens While Them Inappropriate Acts Humans

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato

Virtuous Those Seeking Most Content Without Being Themselves Who Appear

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. Confucius

People Revenge Inspire Submit Virtuous Boredom Constraints Often Which Themselves

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. George Santayana

Best People Men Virtuous Friends Low

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. Jose Marti

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. William Harvey

Man Fly Lust Virtuous Neighbor Scandals Immortal Born Charm Wings Shame Tame His Loudly Die While Actions Publishing Eagles

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. Aristotle

Character Disposition Virtue Virtuous Statesman Moral Citizens Moral Character Performance Namely Most Fellow Fellow Citizens His Anxious Produce Certain Actions

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru

Own Virtue Virtuous Most Talks Least His Person Often Who

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes

Success Beautiful War Capitalism Virtuous Ourselves Deliver Individualistic Goods Intelligent Decadent Hands Just After Which International Found

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man Soul Virtuous Nor Commands

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. Phyllis Schlafly

Women Problem Job Virtuous Sexual Harassment

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend. Susan B. Anthony

Spiritual Man Woman Legal Father Humiliation Husband Doubt Herself Virtuous Possibly Must Immoral Physical Comprehend Only Shame No-One Over Abuse Drunken Himself Subjection Children Sober Sufferings

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. Ezra Taft Benson

Woman Language Mark Virtuous Dress True Hallmark Saint Refinement Modesty

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