Virtue quotations

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◆ And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

- Charlotte Bront?99

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

- Sigmund Freud99

◆ It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

- Voltaire99

◆ Good and great are seldom in the same man.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

- Harry S. Truman99

◆ You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

- Philippa Gregory99

◆ Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one's consciousness can permit the faking of existence.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99

◆ There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

- Erich Fromm99

◆ Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

- Edmund Burke99

◆ ?It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey's bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.

- James Baldwin99

◆ To admit mistake is courage and virtue of strong character, while to rue and look for an excuse reflects weak personality.

- Anil Sinha99