Virtue Quotes - Page 8

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another's burdens, for there is no man without fault, no man without burden, no man sufficient to himself nor wise enough. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity -- adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

Thomas à Kempis

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!

Victor Hugo

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and loathsome as such claim might be, there’s something still more loathsome: your agreement. Do you ask if it’s ever proper to help another man? No- if he claims it as his right or as a moral duty that you owe him. Yes- if such is your own desire based on your own selfish pleasure in the value of his person and his struggle. Suffering as such is not a value, only man’s fight against suffering is. If you choose to help a man who suffers, do it only on the ground of his virtues, of his fight to recover, of his rational record, or of the fact that he suffers unjustly; then your action is still trade, and his virtue is the payment for your help. But to help a man who has no virtues, to help him on the ground of his suffering as such, to accept his faults, his need, as a claim – is to accept the mortgage of a zero on your values. A man who has no virtues is a hater of existence who acts on the premise of death; to help him is to sanction his evil and to support his career of destruction. Be it only a penny you will miss or a kindly smile he has not earned, a tribute to a zero is treason to life and to all those who struggle to maintain it. It is of such pennies and smiles that the desolation of your world was made.

Ayn Rand

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! . . . Let it not fly away from the earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings. . . . Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth—yes, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self.

Ayn Rand

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Ramsey Clark

A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Sappho

Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God.

Virginia Lieto

A most loving virtue of all, is that of a cheerful giver with the right attitude of LOVE! Giving is not just a random act of kindness. It is an investment in humanity. In return you become more than yourself, you transcend

Angie karan

Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.

Seiji Fuji

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Thiruvalluvar

I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

Aldous Huxley

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

Deanna Raybourn

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

Randy Cohen

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

Brené Brown

Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.

John Bruna

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

Boethius

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

Thiruvalluvar

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.

Israelmore Ayivor

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.

Israelmore Ayivor

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

Israelmore Ayivor

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether unkindness and opposition from without, whether some sort of hatred, envy, obstinacy, mistrust, severity, greed and violence do not belong to the favouring circumstances without which a great increase even in virtue is hardly possible. The poison which destroys the weaker nature strengthens the stronger – and he does not call it poison, either.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.

Sunday Adelaja

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical and moral evils that torment mankind, as well as of the vices and follies that degrade and destroy women; yet, at school, boys infallibly lose that decent bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty at home.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

Dean Koontz

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Billy Joel

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Dan Groat

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

William Shakespeare

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Ricky Gervais

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Thiruvalluvar

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Albert Camus

Inner beauty magnifies outer beauty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your inner light is your brightest light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your inner light lights up your outer world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Light is always one step ahead of darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

Miya Yamanouchi

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

C.S. Lewis

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

Chris Matakas

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