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Virtue Quotes (page 10)

Max Beerbohm quote: "Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests."
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. Max Beerbohm
Karl Barth quote: "No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone..."
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. Karl Barth
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Gordon B. Hinckley
In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred. Samuel Johnson
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. Victor Hugo
People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them. Chuck Palahniuk
When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke. Rudyard Kipling
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. Ernest Hemingway
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc. Lionel Trilling
Jane Austen quote: "Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward."
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. Jane Austen
Joseph Heller quote: "In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had..."
In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure. Joseph Heller
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue...."
The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. John Adams
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "There is no virtue if there is no immortality."
There is no virtue if there is no immortality. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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