Virtue Quotes

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Nikola Tesla

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

Maya Angelou

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Jose Maria Peman, Spanish writer, El Divino Impaciente