Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
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.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.