Quotes with virtue

Quotes 101 till 120 of 369.

  • Erik H. Erikson Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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  • Horace How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Adam Smith Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William S. Burroughs Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Cass Sunstein Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Lord George Byron I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Milton I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Boris Pasternak I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Confucius I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ajay Naidu I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Barry Goldwater I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Samuel Johnson If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • George H.W. Bush If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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