Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.[Aristotle] Quote:Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.[Aristotle] Quote:Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.[Aristotle] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.[George Washington] Quote:I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.[George Washington] Quote:Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.[Joseph Addison] Quote:It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Courage is the first of the virtues, because it makes all others possible.[Aristotle] Quote:The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.[D.H. Lawrence] Quote:Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. [Cicero] Quote:How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! <br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it <br> That we can die but once to serve our country! [Joseph Addison] Quote:He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. [Confucius] Quote:The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. [Confucius] Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Quote:No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. [Clare Booth Luce] Quote:Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. [Baruch Spinoza] Quote:The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: virtueDefinition: Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.Definition: Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine. Definition: Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance. Definition: Excellence; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth. Definition: Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty. Definition: A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc. Definition: Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity. Definition: One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. |
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