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Virtue Quotes

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

– Henry Kissinger

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

– John Bradshaw

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

– James Thurber

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

– J. William Fulbright

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

– Albert Einstein

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

– Joseph Addison

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

– Chester W. Nimitz

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

– Joyce Meyer

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

– Judith Martin

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

– Ambrose Bierce

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

– Ajay Naidu

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

– John Kenneth Galbraith

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue – it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

– Joseph Stiglitz

To say of shame – what is it? Of virtue – we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it’s no longer sin.

– Algernon Charles Swinburne

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

– Imre Lakatos

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

– Alphonse Karr

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

– Joseph Addison

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

– Barry Goldwater

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

– Anatole France

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

– Adam Smith

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

– C. S. Lewis

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

– Buddha

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president’s speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

– Brit Hume

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

– Benjamin Rush

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

– Aristotle

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

– Confucius

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.

– Apollonius of Tyana

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

– Alan Alda

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.

– Aristotle

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue.

– Ayn Rand

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