Virtue Quotes - Page 25

• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, People, Sublime

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• Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Elements, Movement, Way

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.63, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Self, Would Be, Multitudes

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• It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

  Aristotle

  Action, Produce, Performances

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.

  Hodding Carter III

  Trends, Matter, Mockery

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• Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

  William Safire

  Believe, Men, Challenges

  William Safire (2000). “Scandalmonger: A Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.

  Sidney Hook

  Philosophical, Writing, Color

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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• I think no virtue goes with size.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Size

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.235, Delphi Classics

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• I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

  Brian Andreas

  Strong, Enough, Strong Enough

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• The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Influence, Pupils

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.471, Harvard University Press

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• Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when mistreated. They never complain about their food. They never gripe about the way the house is kept. They are chivalrous and courageous, ready to protect their mistress at the risk of their lives. They love children, and no matter how noisy and boisterous they are, the dog loves every minute of it. In fact, a dog is still competition for a husband. Perhaps if we husbands imitated a few of our dog's virtues, life with our family might be more amiable.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Dog, Children

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

  Plato

  Men, Praise, Given

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Girl, Useless, Starving

  Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”

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• The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another: I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Men, Over You, Soul

  "A Mother's Advice to Her Son". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1726.

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• Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Bravery, Demand

  Joseph M. Marshall III (2002). “The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living”, p.127, Penguin

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• When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

  I. F. Stone

  Credit, Crime, Ends

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• 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 Allport

  Past, New Experiences, Events

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• A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized

  Girish Karnad

  Men, Crime, Life Time

  Girish Raghunath Karnad (1994). “Three Plays”, Oxford University Press

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• I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.

  William Inge

  Play, Looks, Faults

  William Inge (1958). “Four Plays”, p.9, Grove Press

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• Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.

  Mark Batterson

  Responsibility, Uniqueness

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

  Aristotle

  Hero, Tragedy, Excess

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• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  Geoff Rickly

  Art, Class, Universal

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

  E. O. Wilson

  Psychological

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• You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Vices, Term, Exceed

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