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Virtue Quotes

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

– Elon Musk

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

– Frances Wright

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

– David Mallet

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

– Edwin Louis Cole

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

– Max Beerbohm

Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we’ve been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?

– Gordon W. Allport

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

– Plato

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

– Edward Dahlberg

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I’ve been that way, I’ve always been less exalted than I would have liked.

– Mary Karr

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

– Francis Atterbury

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

– Euripides

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

– George Savile

Silence is the virtue of fools.

– Francis Bacon

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

– Evelyn Waugh

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.

– Edmund Husserl

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

– David Mallet

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

– Dinesh D’Souza

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

– Plato

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

– Geraldo Rivera

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

– George Bernard Shaw

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

– Dick Cheney

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

– Gordon B. Hinckley

I’m really tired of virtue.

– P. J. O’Rourke

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