Virtuous Quotes (79 quotes)

Picture of quotation author John Wycliffe
„Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.“
― John Wycliffe ―
Picture of quotation author Mary Wollstonecraft
„In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.“
Picture of quotation author Mary Wollstonecraft
„The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.“
Picture of quotation author Joseph B. Wirthlin
„If we seek things that are virtuous and lovely, we surely will find them. Conversely, if we seek for evil, we will find that also.“
Picture of quotation author Thomas Willis
„I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.“
― Thomas Willis ―
Picture of quotation author Jeff Weiner
„I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.“
― Jeff Weiner ―
Picture of quotation author Henry Thomas
„I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous.“
― Henry Thomas ―
Picture of quotation author Alex Tabarrok
„Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.“
― Alex Tabarrok ―
Picture of quotation author Percy Bysshe Shelley
„The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.“
Picture of quotation author Phyllis Schlafly
„Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.“
Picture of quotation author Jean-Paul Sartre
„I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.“
Picture of quotation author George Santayana
„Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.“
Picture of quotation author George Santayana
„It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.“
Picture of quotation author Francois de La Rochefoucauld
„There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.“
Picture of quotation author Francois de La Rochefoucauld
„The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.“
Picture of quotation author Francois de La Rochefoucauld
„There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.“
Picture of quotation author Samuel Richardson
„Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.“
Picture of quotation author Samuel Richardson
„To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.“
Picture of quotation author Francois Rabelais
„Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.“
Picture of quotation author Plato
„The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.“
― Plato ―

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