Virtue Quotes - Page 21

• Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, People, Tolerance

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• Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agents, Action, Observers

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• Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

  Dante Alighieri

  Doe, Talent, Speed

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• The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Play, Actors

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• The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Good Life, Men, Seeking

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.254, A&C Black

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• What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Dark, What Matters, Community

  Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

  Jefferson Davis

  Children, Duty, Worthy

  Jefferson Davis (1923). “Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches”

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• All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

  Edmund Burke

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.173

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• Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Order, Practice, Roots

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• Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, People, Giving

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• Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.

  Steven Levy

  Baby, Ideas, Google

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• People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

  Orson Scott Card

  Boys, People, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Path, Given, Should

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• Some consider themselves great because they have vast territory, some because they have finance, some because they have arms, some because they have vast populations, but, the real wealth, real greatnesss is virtue which earns the Grace of God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Grace, Arms

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• No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.

  John Cassian

  Heart, Humility, Soul

  John Cassian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)”, p.220, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Appreciation, Irony, Your Favorite

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment in fullness of life in God Consciousness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Men, Fullness Of Life, Joy

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1968). “The Science of Being and Art of Living”

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

  Seneca the Younger

  Practice, Training, Firsts

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• Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Character, Thinking

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• To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

  Charles Palliser

  Betrayed, Betray

  Charles Palliser (2015). “Betrayals”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.

  Trita Parsi

  Mistake, Mean, Iran

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

  James Bryan Smith

  Religious, Healing, Haves And Have Nots

  James Bryan Smith (2010). “The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Escaping, People

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• Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.

  David Samuels

  Kindness, Common

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• There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

  Joseph Rago

  Inherent

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