Virtue Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Temptation

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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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• Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

  Ambrose

  Wicked, Riches, Aids

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

  Mark Batterson

  Responsibility, Uniqueness

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• The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Holy Eucharist, World, May

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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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• 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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• To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Language, Speak, Crime

  Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

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• In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hate, Cases, Involuntary

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• There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Quality, Becoming, Attractive

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• The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

  Henri Nouwen

  Differences, Sin, Rich

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• Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, People, Tolerance

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• The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.

  Thomas Merton

  Jobs, Offering, Suffering

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• Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it, as the most sacred of all our civil and social duties... It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Blessing, People, Liberty

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• We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Exercise, Opportunity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.177, Catholic Way Publishing

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Psychological

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Humility, Effort, Amount

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• Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Political, Substitutes, Hard

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.

  John Locke

  Father, Men, Yield

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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