Virtue Quotes - Page 27

• As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Player, People, Inspired

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• The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, May, Steps

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• God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.8

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• Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

  Edward Young

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  Edward Young (1825). “The Revenge: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.12

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• No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

  Voltaire

  Valentines Day, Love Is, Long

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• Virtue alone has majesty in death.

  Edward Young

  Death, Dying, Majesty

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.35

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• That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

  Adam Smith

  Respect, Greatness, Age

  Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.57

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• Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

  John Gay

  Ignorance, Eternity, Providence

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.78

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• When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He . . . had heard that Mr. Duche . . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche . . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress . . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.

  John Adams

  Country, Prayer, Character

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• Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.

  John Adams

  Real, Passion, Government

  Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”

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• Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Rewards, Ingredients, Consequence

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• [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

  John Adams

  Eye, Men, Intellectual

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• It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting, and distresses yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have the good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices. But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe.

  John Adams

  Believe, America, Errors

  Letter to Abigail Adams, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 03, 1776.

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• When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

  John Adams

  Essence, Gone, Republic

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.603

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• Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

  John Adams

  Modesty, Thrive

  John Adams, Robert Joseph Taylor, Gregg L. Lint (1989). “Papers of John Adams”

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

  David Mallet

  Strong, Events, Valor

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• The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Imperfection, Important

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• Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

  John Adams

  Life, Frugality, Industry

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.58, UPNE

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• All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  William Ellery Channing

  Determination, Lying, Self

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• Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

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• Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Love Is, And Love

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• Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

  Lord Byron

  Truth, Fire, Names

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

  Don Marquis

  Men, Literature

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• Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

  John Locke

  Allowance, Esteem, Praiseworthy

  John Locke, Anthony Douglas Woozley (1964). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.302, Hayes Barton Press

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• What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Helping, Help Me

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