Quotes tagged ‘Virtue’

“Sally Owens: All I want is a normal life. Aunt Frances Owens: My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage! Sally Owens: Well, it's what I want.”

— Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks, Sally Owens, Sandra Bullock, imdb.com

“Isabelle Lightwood: You almost done? Magnus Bane: Patience is a virtue, my dear.”

— Allison Rymer, Magnus Bane, Harry Shum Jr., imdb.com

“Well, I know that if you think life is a vending machine, where you put in virtue and you get out happiness, then you're probably gonna be disappointed. I know that.”

— Craig Wright, Maggie Sibley, Tina Holmes, imdb.com

“...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.”

— Shams Tabrizi, amazon.com

“Virtue is a relative term.”

— D. C. Fontana, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk.”

— George R. R. Martin, Tyrion Lannister, amazon.com

“The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people.”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org

“There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected legislature and an indep…”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain.”

— Diego Rivera, goodreads.com

“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org

“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org

“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”

— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com

“All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.”

— John Ruskin, amazon.com

“But he, though blind of sight, Despised, and thought extinguished quite, With inward eyes illuminated, His fiery virtue roused From under ashes into sudden flame,”

— John Milton, en.wikiquote.org

“Kindness is a form of intelligence.”

— Nayyirah Waheed, faraziyya.wordpress.com

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

— Mary Shelley, amazon.com

“Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, tmhome.com