Virtue Quotations | Page 4

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I think what happens in this process is there is an initial search and so much work is required to satisfy the competing constituencies that once a list is assembled, few people want to give it up. Some of the names on the list are almost venerable by virtue of age and longevity. There is a certain comfort in going with what you know, but it may not be the best.

I think there's strength in numbers. And I think that we've covered ourselves with the rotation just by virtue of the fact that there's strength in numbers.

Just because virtue cannot withstand the attack of subjectivity doesn't mean it ceases to exist.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

My virtue is my kindness. I'm a kind person. My fault is having that become my enemy.

Lonnie is, by virtue of what we do and what he does, our adversary. But he does it in a professional way. I'll say that.

I think Senator McCain, by virtue of our longtime association, understands that I ... will be an independent voice for reform in Washington, D.C. He could use more like-minded people to help him.

I think I can see a great virtue in it. It would help the Scottish economy and attract people to Scotland.

I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

I would like to advise all the dear brothers and sisters and also myself to observe piety and virtue and to be watchful of ourselves in our words, deeds, thoughts and intentions.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it

Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart

White-Headed Chief was wealthy, even though he owned nothing. In what way did virtue pay ? The men who were formally generous in this way were the most admired, most respected, and the most loved men in the tribe. These were the men who benefited the

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue is the sign of the educated person. This is what makes education worthwhile.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

Virtue and a Trade are the best portion for Children

Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesnt get in our way.

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

We delivered another strong performance in the first three months of 2006 as our average daily volume exceeded two million contracts for the second consecutive quarter. The double digit growth in our core options business fueled a 40% increase in net income once again reflecting the operating leverage that is inherent in our business. We also continued to post strong cash flow which we now share with our stockholders by virtue of the implementation of the dividend policy that we announced last year.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Kindness is virtue itself.

It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

Courage is the virtue of the free.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

Virtue is its own punishment.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

There is explosive power in virtue.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

This rush to push through legislation of dubious virtue without any significant review is both unnecessary and unwise.

This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- don't exist now. And he's mad.

Without the Guru, spiritual wisdom is not obtained; other tastes are poison. Without virtue, nothing is of any use. The taste of Maya is bland and insipid.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always.

Fans make it feel like you are 3 to 4 degrees cooler by virtue of the air on skin, which produces a cooler effect.

We're in a better position to prevent an attack by terrorists on an airplane, that's for sure, ... But then again, we were in a better position after 50 minutes (on Sept. 11, 2001) to defend it, just by virtue of people in the plane ? the last plane ? knowing what was happening and taking the plane down rather than allowing the terrorists to fly the plane into the Capitol.

The other airlines by virtue of the bankruptcy court have reduced their labor costs below where ours is today. That represents a competitive problem.

This team is an NCAA-caliber basketball team. It's just the nature of the selection process. There are probably going to be a lot of teams that probably aren't as good as us that are playing by virtue of conference bids or maybe by the exposure of the media in certain regions of the country.

You have a risk of problems occurring just by virtue of having people involved in the real estate brokerage business inside or outside the city. They may have to deal with brokers who are doing work inside the city.

Within technology, specifically, we're looking at areas like the software, Internet infrastructure, optical networking equipment, areas where we're looking at very, very big markets, and where there are companies that are enormously well positioned by virtue of their technology position, the strength of their sales force, their ability to continue to deliver price performance increases; those are sort of the key issues,

What this show ends up being is the beneficiary of all the work that I've done in the previous incarnations of it. Every one of those shows was responsible for making something new happen, either by virtue of what an actor does by bringing something to it, or a piece blocking or a musical interpretation. I've put all of it together.

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.