It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn’t actually mean there’s any virtue to doing it that way at all.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
I always admired virtue – but I could never imitate it.
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
I’ve always been a night person. There’s a sense of virtue attached to getting up in the morning and doing things and starting the day, and I always felt bad for not being that person.
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
I’ve been deeply influenced by Aristotle’s idea that virtue is a habit, something you practice and get better at, rather than something that comes naturally. ‘The control of the appetites by right reason,’ is how he defined it.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
I think I’ve been very fortunate, considering the obstacles that I had to deal with, you know, just being – by virtue of being a brown, lovely, brown-skinned man. But on the other hand, I’ve been able to make a good living, and I’ve been able to take care of my family, which is most important to me.
I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can’t write songs, I can’t perform, I can’t design clubs, but I was an enthusiast. My gift was that I said yes to everybody.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
I’ve been standing up against what I call the ‘virtue signalling’ from Justin Trudeau which actually ignores the real challenges of the day and offers symbolic gestures as a substitute.
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.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.
’24’ and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, ‘The Sopranos’ supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.’
The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
The great virtue of the web, its ease of communication, has also become its Achilles’ heel in that it has polluted the air with meaningless babble and egomaniacal drivel.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
By virtue of who we are, what we know, the promises we made to our Heavenly Father, and the fact that we are living now and where we are living, I absolutely think we were all born to lead.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Good-faith re-examination of a position you’ve held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you’re not happy. Or you’re being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don’t love each other; you’re just there out of habit. That doesn’t work, no matter how many years you stay together.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
