| 113 Virtue Quotes
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“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.”
Sidney Lanier Quotes |
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“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever”
Lao Tzu Quotes |
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“Virtue is not knowing but doing”
Japanese Proverb Quotes |
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“Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.”
St. Francis de Sales Quotes |
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“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues”
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes |
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“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”
Confucius Quotes |
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“He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices”
Lord Byron Quotes |
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“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
Ovid Quotes |
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“The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them”
John Ruskin Quotes |
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“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
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“Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.”
Anne Herbert Quotes |
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“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 1)
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“One's outlook is a part of his virtue.”
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes Source: Concord Days--April Outlook
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“Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still
A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 265)
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“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul,
Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness
That even above the smiles and frowns of fate
Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth
That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 284)
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“Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Adversity
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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Beauty
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“Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
[Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: Satires (V, 42)
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“What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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