Virtue Quotes (154 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Pythagoras
„Virtue is harmony.“
― Pythagoras ―
Picture of quotation author Napoleon Bonaparte
„The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.“
Picture of quotation author Adam Gopnik
„There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.“
― Adam Gopnik ―
Picture of quotation author John Morley
„They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.“
― John Morley ―
Picture of quotation author Jonathan Miller
„I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.“
― Jonathan Miller ―
Picture of quotation author Alexander Pope
„Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.“
― Alexander Pope ―
Picture of quotation author Moshe Sharett
„We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.“
― Moshe Sharett ―
Picture of quotation author George Grosz
„The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.“
― George Grosz ―
Picture of quotation author David Starr Jordan
„Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.“
Picture of quotation author Jane Porter
„Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.“
― Jane Porter ―
Picture of quotation author Rudolf Steiner
„A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.“
― Rudolf Steiner ―
Picture of quotation author Nassau William Senior
„With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.“
Picture of quotation author Wilhelm Wundt
„We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.“
― Wilhelm Wundt ―
Picture of quotation author David Hume
„Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.“
― David Hume ―
Picture of quotation author Hippocrates
„The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.“
― Hippocrates ―
Picture of quotation author Diogenes
„Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.“
― Diogenes ―
Picture of quotation author Dalton Trumbo
„Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.“
― Dalton Trumbo ―
Picture of quotation author Colin Firth
„My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.“
― Colin Firth ―
Picture of quotation author Christopher Marlowe
„Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.“
Picture of quotation author Ernestine Rose
„Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.“
― Ernestine Rose ―

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