Virtue Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Art, Exercise, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2590, Delphi Classics

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• Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Body, Tots

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• ...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

  David Hume

  Past, Joy, Mind

  David Hume, Peter Millican (2008). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.102, Oxford University Press

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• If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Giving, Lust

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• If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

  Tavis Smiley

  Practice, Acorns, Oak Tree

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Parent, India, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing

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• Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Intellectual, Growth

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• There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

  Joseph Rago

  Inherent

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• If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrisy, Republic, Coastal

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.144, Spectra

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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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• Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, People

  "A society without fathers is a society of orphans, Pope Francis says". www.patheos.com. January 28, 2015.

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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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• Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

  John Milton

  Pride, Vices, Tongue

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• How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

  Marquis de Sade

  Heart, Young, Semblance

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• Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general.

  Sun Tzu

  Distance, Enemy, Victory

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• The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

  Denis Johnston

  Cynical, Luck, Odd Things

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• Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thrones, Littles, Moral

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• It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.

  Kitty Ferguson

  Attitude, Consideration, Evidence

  Kitty Ferguson (1997). “The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sun, Dessert, Middle

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• You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Heart, Goal

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.36, Booklassic

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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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• The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Overcoming, Faces

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• Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Honour, Ought, Reap

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• Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

  John Adams

  Humility, Men, Years

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