Virtue Quotes - Page 11

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.

Christine de Pizan

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Héloïse d'Argenteuil

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Kahlil Gibran

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you put on your thinking cap make sure it’s clean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The world is full of angels; if you can’t find one, be one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

Matshona Dhliwayo

For present-day politicians there are only political points to be made from such statements, and the larger the sin the larger the outrage, the larger the apology and the larger the potential political gain for sorrow expressed. Through such statements political leaders can gain the benefits of magnanimity without the stain of involvement: the person making the apology had done nothing wrong and all the people who could have received the apology are dead.

Douglas Murray

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

Iain Pears

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

Thiruvalluvar

Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessing over himself is to wholly step outside his flesh. But who could do this by himself? And who would really want to under his natural pretense? And even if somehow he could and he succeeded, would not it be artificial? Would not he seem far too aware of his own talents of achieving humility for it to be such? Alternatively, he would need a distraction, something else to love; it is not that the Humbleman thinks poorly of himself, nor highly for that matter, but rather he does not think of himself at all - and this is because he is too busy loving something or someone else to do it. For the humility of this kind 'rears its head' as the most love-driven and free, spiritual of virtues; whereas its opposite, pride, the most self-imprisoning human vice.

Criss Jami

virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

E.A. Bucchianeri

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

Barry M. Goldwater

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

Nathaniel Branden

If this is vise I want no virtue....I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars....But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Ayn Rand

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Sigmund Freud

I am a Warrior of Virtue, Nenya, the Water Warrior. Ardan is safe at last. That is all that matters. That is all that will ever matter...

Mili Fay

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

Charles Fourier

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.

Andy Rooney

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

Ayn Rand

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Milan Kundera

Love knows the way because love is the way.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is the cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soul mate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is the greatest drug; joy is the strongest medicine; virtue is the noblest remedy; together, they are the greatest therapy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A woman’s beauty is worth little to you, a woman’s intelligence is worth much to you, a woman’s virtue is worth more to you, a woman’s love is worth the most to you, and a woman’s loyalty is worth everything to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A woman’s elegance will charm you for days,her beauty will charm you for weeks,her grace will charm you for years,and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want the world to know how truly beautiful you are, love everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Courage is a warrior, wisdom is a sage, virtue is a priest, and love is poet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knock on the sky's door, and stars will open it; knock on the universe’s door, and love will open it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.

William J. Federer

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

Thomas Hardy

If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.

Sunday Adelaja

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