Words matter. These are the best Virtue Quotes from famous people such as Thomas Bulfinch, Ludwig van Beethoven, Asha Rangappa, William S. Burroughs, Denis Diderot, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
The president, by virtue of his office, can easily ‘go dark’ when it comes to conversations with foreign leaders, even if he makes promises or assurances that run contrary to the interests of the United States or even place the country in danger.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
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.
It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual, regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
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.
Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it’s clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren’t very virtuous.
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong – if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong – nothing is wrong.
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I’ve sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there’s no virtue in that; it’s the way one is raised.
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.
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
I admit I can’t shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.
I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
I think that I’ve been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I’ve spent so much time in front of a green screen.
Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; ‘Tis virtue makes the bliss, where’er we dwell.
For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.
The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family.
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you’re telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.
The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn’t care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.
